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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1987, 2:55 PM CDT for Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1987, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1987, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, MS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Pike, MS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 2:22 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 222 PM CDT WED AUG 5 1987 AT 215 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHCENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. ONE OF THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF WESSON. WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE...AND HEATING...MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO BECOME ACTIVE THROUGHOUT SOME SOUTHCENTRAL COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SOME HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...DUE TO THEIR SLOW MOVEMENT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds | 60 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.