Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 1992, 4:20 AM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1992, 4:20 AM CST (10:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1992, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 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 KMEI 151020 SVRMEI MSC153-151100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 420 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...WAYNE COUNTY AT 419 AM CST WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITImONS.
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, 1:17 AM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
MSZ011-012-014-150815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 118 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 15 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 110 AM CST RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI BORDER NEAR VERNANDA LOUISIANA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO SOUTHEASTERN MARION AND SOUTHERN LAMAR COUNTIES BY 130 AM. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCE A POSSIBLE TORNADO AND WIND DAMAGE IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. AT THE PRESENT TIME THE STORM APPEARS TO HAVE WEAKENED...BUT WILL BE WATCHED FOR FURTHER INTENSIFICATION. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHERN COVINGTON COUNTY 10 MILES SOUTH OF COLLINS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO SOUTHERN JONES COUNTY BY 130 AM.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 1:25 AM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1225 AM CST FRI FEB 14 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 15 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 6 AM CST.... AT 1225 AM...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE INDICATED IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN GREENWOOD... CARTHAGE...AND VICKSBURG...AND ALSO IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE STONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN HOLLY BLUFF AND YAZOO CITY...NEAR CARTHAGE...AND ALSO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST OF PICKENS. IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAMMOND. ELSEWHERE...A LARGE AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI...AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 1:46 AM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013- ALZ004-008-013-016-150830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 125 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 15 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 125 AM...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE INDICATED IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN PICKENS AND CANTON...AND IN EXTREME SOUTH MISSISSIPPI FROM CENTREVILLE TO WEST OF LUMBERTON. OTHERWISE...MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN MISSISSIPPI WERE LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF HATTIESBURG...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIBERTY...AND 15 MILES WEST OF LUMBERTON. IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENTWOOD. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 1:56 AM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
MSZ012-ALZ013-151000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 155 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 16 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CST AND IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...CHOCTAW TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 15 CONTINUES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 600 AM CST. AT 150 AM CST VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE INDICATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLLINS MISSISSIPPI AND NEAR SUMRALL MISSISSIPPI. HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED NEAR PHILADELPHIA AND 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DE KALB MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. F N
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 2:51 AM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013- ALZ004-008-013-016-150930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 225 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 15 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 225 AM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...WHILE MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN COVERED MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA... 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCCOMB...AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROLLING FORK. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN PRENTISS...LAUREL...AND CAMP SHELBY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 3:46 AM CST, 34 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013- ALZ004-008-013-016-151030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 325 AM CST SAT FEB 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 15 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 325 AM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...WHILE MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN COVERED MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HATTIESBURG...AND ALSO JUST EAST AND SOUTH OF COLUMBIA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN CENTRIAL MISSISSIPPI MOSTLY BETWEEN ROLLING FORK AND LEXINGTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 1:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 46 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.