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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Jackson, MS

March 9, 1992Issaquena County, Sharkey County, Washington County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1992, 9:18 PM CST for Issaquena County, Sharkey County, Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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: Mar 9, 1992, 9:18 PM CST (03:18 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 1992, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Issaquena County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Washington County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 9, 9:40 PM CST	Tornado F4	Sharkey, MS
Mar 9, 9:54 PM CST	Tornado F4	Washington, 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 686 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 9.4

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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, Mar 9, 5:25 PM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes before

MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-100030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
524 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992

TORNADO WATCHES WHICH INCLUDE MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA
REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST

AT 515 PM CST MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
...SOME CONTAINING HEAVY RAIN...NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE EXTENDING
FROM GREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI EAST TO COLUMBUS MISSISSIPPI THEN SOUTHEAST
TO EUTAW ALABAMA.
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ALSO SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI
BETWEEN WAYNESBORO AND LUCEDALE.

THE THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

Special weather statement, Mar 9, 7:52 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 9, 7:56 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 9, 8:01 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before

MSZ009-012-ALZ008-100300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO CST IN HEADLINE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
755 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992

TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA UNTIL 100
AM CST.

AT 750 PM CST MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED NO PRECIPITATION.
OTHER WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AROUND THE REGION WERE INDICATING STRONG
TO INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...NORTHEAST
LOUISANA AND SOUTH_EASTERN ARKANSAS.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

Special weather statement, Mar 9, 8:31 PM CST, 47 minutes before

MSZALL-100330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
827 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992

...TORNADO WATCH 67 FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSISSIPPI
TILL 1 AM...

AT 820 PM CST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEASTWARD
ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA.  THE MOST
INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA NEAR MONROE.
THIS STORM IS IN A PRIME POSITION TO INCREASE IN SEVERITY AND WILL
REQUIRE A WARNING IF IT HOLDS TOGETHER AS IT APPROACHES THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER.  THE PROJECTED PATH OF THIS STORM WOULD PUT IT
INTO ISSAQUENA COUNTY A LITTLE AFTER 9 PM.

A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOTED OVER SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
INTO NORTHEAST LOUISIANA.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

Special weather statement, Mar 9, 9:17 PM CST, 1 minute before

MSZ009-012-ALZ008-100415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
916 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992

TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA
UNTIL 1 AM CST.

AT 910 PM MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORM...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...OVER THE NORTHWESTERN ONE-THIRD
OF MISSISSIPPI.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTHWEST OF A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR VICKSBURG NORTHEAST TO WINONA TO ABEiRDEEN.  THE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 6:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar	28 min
Mar 9, 6:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower	20 min
Mar 9, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	36 min
Mar 9, 6:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Tallahatchie	19 min
Mar 9, 8:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	43 min
Mar 9, 9:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	25 min
Mar 9, 9:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	37 min
Mar 9, 10:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada, Yalobusha	25 min
Mar 9, 10:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Yazoo	52 min
Mar 9, 10:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	46 min
Mar 9, 10:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah	49 min
Mar 9, 10:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	49 min
Mar 9, 10:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	39 min
Mar 9, 11:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	45 min
Mar 9, 11:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Smith	37 min
Mar 9, 11:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	65 min
Mar 10, 12:10 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	35 min
Mar 10, 12:23 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton	52 min
Mar 10, 12:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	50 min
Mar 10, 12:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	48 min
Mar 10, 1:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	47 min
Mar 10, 1:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.