Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 1992, 4:53 PM CDT for Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 1992, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 1992, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Sep 21, 4:20 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
MSZALL-212200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 415 PM CDT MON SEP 21 1992 ... LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PROGRESSING ACROSS MISSISSIPPI... AT 410PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN CARROLL COUNTY TO NORTHWEST HINDS COUNTY TO AMITE COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE INDICATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF YAZOO CITY AND 10 MILES WEST OF FLORA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ALSO DETECTED OVER SOUTHWEST HINDS COUNTY AMD WESTERN COPIAH COUNTY. ALTHOUGH THE STORMS OVER SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ARE NOT AS STRONG... THE WEATHER PATTERN FAVORS RAPID DEVELOPMENT IN THIS AREA OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO AS WELL. RESIDENTS EA4ST OF A WATER VALLEY TO VICKSBURG TO LIBERTY LINE CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 4:42 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013- ALZ004-008-013-016-212235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 440 PM CDT MON SEP 21 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 435 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST OF GRENADA TO EDWARDS TO LIBERTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS JUST WEST OF VICKSBURG MOVING TO THE EAST. RESIDENTS OF WARREN COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER DURING THE NEXT HOUR AS FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ARE LIKELY lWITH THIS STORM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING MCCOMB AND THE JACKSON METRO AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 5:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Warren | 44 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.