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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Jackson, MS

May 10, 1988Marion County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1988, 3:23 PM CDT for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1988, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1988, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Marion 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 309 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 12:00Z on 1988-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1447 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 12:00Z on 1988-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1447 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
5.3

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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 10, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWashington52 min
May 10, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANBolivar37 min
May 10, 1:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSunflower19 min
May 10, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLeflore35 min
May 10, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANGrenada47 min
May 10, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHolmes30 min
May 10, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAttala, Leake45 min
May 10, 3:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHolmes34 min
May 10, 4:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAttala49 min
May 10, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMarion26 min
May 10, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWalthall34 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.