Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1988, 10:29 AM CDT for Kemper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1988, 10:29 AM CDT (15:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1988, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kemper 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 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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, Apr 23, 9:44 AM CDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 945 AM CDT SAT APR 23 1988 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... A WEAK DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE JUST TO THE WEST OF MISSISSIPPI IS COMBINING WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE NEAR THE EARTH'S SURFACE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING. A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM NORTH OF MERIDIAN THROUGH THE JACKSON AREA AND WESTWARD INTO NORTHCENTRAL LOUISIANA. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...BUT HAS ONLY LASTED A MINUTE OR SO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS THE DISTURBANCE MOVES CLOSER TO AND THEN ACROSS THE STATE. SOME DECREASE IN ACTIVITY SHOULD TAKE PLACE THIS AFTERNOON AFTER THE DISTURBANCE MOVES OUT OF THE AREA.
Local storm report, Apr 23, 10:25 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1025 AM CDT SAT APR 23 1988 AT 1020 AM CDT BAILY FIRE DEPARTMENT...NORTHERN LAUDERDALE COUNTY... REPORTS GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 10:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 10:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 10:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 26 min |
| Apr 23, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 11:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 43 min |
| Apr 23, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott, Smith | 35 min |
| Apr 23, 11:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 35 min |
| Apr 23, 12:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 38 min |
| Apr 23, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 28 min |
| Apr 23, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.