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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Jackson, MS

August 22, 1990Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1990, 4:28 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 1990, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1990-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1598 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1990-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
1598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 22, 2:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-222145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
238 PM CDT WED AUG 22 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 670 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR
NEWTON...LAUDERDALE...JASPER...CLARKE...JONES AND WAYNE COUNTIES IN
EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND CHOCTAW COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

AT 230 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MERIDIAN INDICATED
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A LINE SELMA ALABAMA TO
COLUMBUS TO GREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN
NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THESE  THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY
WINDS...DEADLY L^IGHTNING AND HAIL.  IF YOU ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE
WATCH AREA YOU SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER ALERT AND LISTEN FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 3:45 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-222230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
338 PM CDT WED AUG 22 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 670 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM
INCLUDING NEWTON...LAUDERDALE...JASPER...CLARKE...JONES AND WAYNE
COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND CHOCTAW COUNTY IN WEST
CENTRAL ALABAMA...

AT 330 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MERIDIAN INDICATED
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A LINE MONTGOMERY
ALABAMA TO MACON TO ROLLING FORK MISSISSIPPI. STRONGEST STORM WAS
LOCATED IN CLARKE COUNTY BETWEEN PACHUTA AND QUITMAN.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THESE  THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY
WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL.  IF YOU ARE IN OR CLOSE TO THE
WATCH AREA YOU SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER ALERT AND LISTEN FOR LATER
STATEMENTS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJones35 min
Aug 22, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSimpson25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.