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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 1990, 10:28 AM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1990, 10:28 AM CST (16:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1990, 11:15 AM CST
- In force
- 47 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMEI 151630
SVRMEI
MSC075-151715-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1028 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
...LAUDERDALE
AT 1027 AM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES
WEST OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Feb 15, 6:10 AM CST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
MSZALL-161200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 610 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990 ...STORMY WEATHER EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF MISSISSIPPI TODAY AND TONIGHT... VERY MOIST UNSTABLE AIR COMBINED WITH AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL RESULT IN NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND UNTIL THE MORNING HOURS OF FRIDAY ACROSS THE EASTERN COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES OF RAIN OVER MOST OF THE STATE. HOWEVER...THE GREATEST THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A HOLLANDALE TO COLUMBUS LINE WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY AND TONIGHT. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAINS...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALL OF THE STATE TODAY AND MOST OF TONIGHT. DUE TO THIS THREAT...IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES AND WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. ALL INTERESTS IN MISSISSIPPI SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY AND TONIGHT.
Local storm report, Feb 15, 9:54 AM CST, 34 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
0950 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990
0925 CST...UNION FIRE CHIEF REPORTED TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN...
MARBLE SIZE HAIL...ROOF OFF BUSINESS IN AND AROUND
UNION IN NEWTON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 9:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 33 min |
| Feb 15, 10:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 34 min |
| Feb 15, 10:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 35 min |
| Feb 15, 10:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 33 min |
| Feb 15, 10:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 48 min |
| Feb 15, 11:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 27 min |
| Feb 15, 11:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 60 min |
| Feb 15, 12:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 2 hr |
| Feb 15, 12:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 33 min |
| Feb 15, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 35 min |
| Feb 15, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 45 min |
| Feb 15, 12:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 38 min |
| Feb 15, 12:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Amite | 50 min |
| Feb 15, 12:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 34 min |
| Feb 15, 1:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 24 min |
| Feb 15, 1:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 51 min |
| Feb 15, 1:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 32 min |
| Feb 15, 1:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Smith | 27 min |
| Feb 15, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 48 min |
| Feb 15, 1:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Pike | 18 min |
| Feb 15, 1:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 2:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 44 min |
| Feb 15, 2:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 25 min |
| Feb 15, 2:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 49 min |
| Feb 15, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 38 min |
| Feb 15, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 23 min |
| Feb 15, 2:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Smith | 3 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson | 3 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:49 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 54 min |
| Feb 15, 3:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 49 min |
| Feb 15, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 46 min |
| Feb 15, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Feb 15, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 4:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 39 min |
| Feb 15, 5:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jasper | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 5:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 27 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.