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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Jackson, MS

June 18, 1989Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1989, 11:55 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 1989, 11:55 PM CDT (04:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1989, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Lauderdale 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 1989-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3006 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 1989-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
3006 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
4.1

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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
Jun 18, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin36 min
Jun 18, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSmith29 min
Jun 18, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper26 min
Jun 19, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSmith39 min
Jun 19, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSimpson39 min

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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.