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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Jackson, MS

May 24, 1986Rankin County, Simpson County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1986, 8:08 PM CDT for Rankin County, Simpson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1986, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1986, 9:40 PM CDT
In force
92 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rankin County, MS, Simpson County, MS

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 272 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 00:00Z on 1986-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 770 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 00:00Z on 1986-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
770 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper60 min
May 25, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSmith30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.