Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1992, 7:26 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1992, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1992, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Choctaw County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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, Jul 16, 4:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
MSZALL-162215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 411 PM CDT THU JUL 16 1992 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP INTO CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON... AT 405 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHERN AND NORTH-CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE MOVING INTO JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF BASSFIELD...WESTERN WARREN COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF VICKSBURG...AND OVER WEBSTER COUNTY EAST AND WEST OF EUROPA. PRESENT STORM MOTION AND SURFACE DATA SUGGEST THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NORTHEASTWARD TOWARDS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. TAKE COVER WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...MOST LIGHTNING FATALITIES IN MISSISSIPPI OCCUR DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS. AN AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS REPRESENT A POTENTIAL OF SEVERE WEATHER THAT MAY AFFECT NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 4:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
MSZALL-162215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 411 PM CDT THU JUL 16 1992 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP INTO CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON... AT 405 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHERN AND NORTH-CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE MOVING INTO JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF BASSFIELD...WESTERN WARREN COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF VICKSBURG...AND OVER WEBSTER COUNTY EAST AND WEST OF EUPORA. PRESENT STORM MOTION AND SURFACE DATA SUGGEST THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NORTHEASTWARD TOWARDS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF TORRENTIAL RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. TAKE COVER WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...MOST LIGHTNING FATALITIES IN MISSISSIPPI OCCUR DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS. AN AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS REPRESENT A POTENTIAL OF SEVERE WEATHER THAT MAY AFFECT NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 5:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
MSZALL-162315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 517 PM CDT THU JUL 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL ARKANSAS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI WITHIN THE NEXT 2 HOURS... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 510 PM CDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED BY RADAR OVER AMITE COUNTY NORTH OF LIBERTY...SOUTHEASTERN COPIAH COUNTY EAST OF WESSON...AND SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF FOREST. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE RECENTLY RACED THROUGH HATTIESBURG...AND OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI AND NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO APPROACH NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI FROM EASTERN ARKANSAS. THESE STORMS REPRESENT A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER TO NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO BE NORTHEAS&T AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Jul 16, 5:26 PM CDT, 2 hours before
STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
525 PM CDT THU JUL 16 1992
TIME(CDT) LOCATION REMARKS
505 PM HWY 98W AT SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN...STRONG
* HATTIESBURG/ WINDS ALSO REPORTED AT PETAL.
FORREST COUNTYSpecial weather statement, Jul 16, 6:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
MSZ001-002-003-004-006-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 602 PM CDT THU JUL 16 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 638 TILL 10 PM FOR NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI... AT 555 PM CDT...BOLIVAR EOC WAS REPORTING 35 TO 40 MILE AN HOUR WINDS AS THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVED INTO COAHOMA AND BOLIVAR COUNTIES. RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE STILL OVER SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS NEAR WILMOT...MCGEHEE AND NORTHWEST OF MONTROSE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...OCCASIONAL CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR A MOUND BAYOU TO GREENVILLE LINE BY 630 PM. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 27 min |
| Jul 16, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 26 min |
| Jul 16, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore | 53 min |
| Jul 16, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sumter | 56 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.