Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 20, 1990, 3:30 AM CST for Hinds County, Madison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 20, 1990, 3:30 AM CST (09:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 20, 1990, 4:15 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hinds County, MS, Madison 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 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KJAN 200931
SVRJAN
MSC049-089-201015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
330 AM CST SAT JAN 20 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
...HINDS...MADISON
AT 325 AM CST A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN
SECTIONS OF HINDS AND MADISON COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR O?F YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
<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, Jan 19, 9:56 PM CST, 5 hours 34 minutes before
MSZALL-200900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 PM CST FRI JAN 19 1990 AT 1000 PM...AND AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN ...WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF LARGE BAND OF PRECIPITATION THAT EXTENDED THROUGH THE LOWER AND MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN HALF OF MISSISSIPPI LATER TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. TORNADO WATCHES HAVE BEEN IN EFFECT THIS EVENING FOR LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. WIND DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUSIANA. PERSONS IN WEST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER CONSCIOUS FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 11:56 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
MSZALL-200630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1150 PM CST FRI JAN 19 1990 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO SPREAD INTO WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. AT 1146 PM CST THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. A CLUSTER OF STRONG STORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER JUST NORTH OF LAKE PROVIDENCE LOUISIANA. THIS CLUSTER OF STORNS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO NORTHERN ISSAQUENA COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. PERSONS IN THE DELTA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 1:10 AM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
MSZALL-200735- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 105 AM CST SAT JAN 20 1990 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO SPREAD INTO NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. AT 100 AM CST THE STRONGEST STORMS IN MISSISSIPPI WERE OVER NORTHERN ISSAQUENA AND SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES...AND EXTENDED ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 2:08 AM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
MSZALL-200835- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 205 AM CST SAT JAN 20 1990 AT 200 AM CST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COVERED NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...AND EXTENDED INTO NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM WASHINGTON AND ISSAQUENA COUNTIES...AND ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE STRONGER STORMS OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA WERE APPROACHING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER...AND WILL SPREAD INTO WARREN...CLABORNE AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. MANY OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jan 20, 3:17 AM CST, 13 minutes before
MSZALL-201030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 310 AM CST SAT JAN 20 1990 AT 305 AM CST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF NORTH AND WEST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA WERE IN A BAND EXTENDING FROM PORT GIBSON TO EDWARDS TO THE SOUTH OF YAZOO CITY. THIS BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH ...AND WILL MOVE INTO THE JACKSON METROPOL&ITIAN AREA IN ABOUT AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO THE JACKSON AREA...SOME FLOODING OF UNDERPASSES AND AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE CAN BE EXPECTED
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.