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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Jackson, MS

July 23, 1990Kemper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1990, 12:52 PM CDT for Kemper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 38 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
Jul 23, 1990, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1990, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
38 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 23, 1:15 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Kemper, 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

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1990-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1365 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 1990-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
1365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEI 231754
SVRMEI
MSC069-231830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1252 PM CDT MON JUL 23 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...KEMPER COUNTY
 
AT 1251 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
DE KALB MISSISSIPPI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE ADWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, Jul 23, 11:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
MSZ003-008-231700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1105 AM CDT MON JUL 23 1990

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN EXTREME WESTCENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...

AT 1100 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED ABY RADAR OVER
THE WESTCENTRAL COUNTIES.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST
NORTHEAST OF VICKSBURG.   MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN
AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS TO OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll, Grenada, Montgomery36 min
Jul 23, 11:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison, Yazoo46 min
Jul 23, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah35 min
Jul 23, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne, Warren35 min
Jul 23, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds29 min
Jul 23, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper44 min
Jul 23, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClarke51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.