Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Jackson, MS

February 25, 1992Kemper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 1992, 5:11 PM CST for Kemper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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
Feb 25, 1992, 5:11 PM CST (23:11 UTC)
Expired
Feb 25, 1992, 6:00 PM CST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Kemper County, MS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 25, 5:50 PM CSTHail 1.75Kemper, 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

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1992-02-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1992-02-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 160 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEI 252311
SVRMEI
MSC069-260000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
511 PM CST TUE FEB 25 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...KEMPER COUNTY
 
AT 509 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF
DEKALB MISSISSIPPI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 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 25, 4:24 PM CST, 47 minutes before
MSZ003-006-008-010-011-014-252330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
420 PM CST TUE FEB 25 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ACROSS CENTRAL
   MISSISSIPPI...

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ERUPTED ACROSS SECTIONS OF CENTRAL
AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON. JUST AFTER 4 PM... PEA SIZE HAIL
WAS REPORTED IN SOUTHERN RANKIN COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF BRANDON
IN THE ROCK HILL COMMUNITY. SINCE THE AIR ALOFT IS VERY COLD...A FEW OF
THE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN WITH SOME
HAIL. WIND GUSTS NEAR 40 MILES MAY ALSO OCCUR.

THE THUNDERSTORM THREAT SHOULD END AROUND THE JACKSON AREA BY 5 OR
530 PM AND AROUND HATTRIESBURG BY 6 OR 630 PM AS AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE
CURRENTLY OVER CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI MOVES EAST TOWARDS ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Feb 25, 5:07 PM CST, 4 minutes before
MSZ003-006-008-010-011-014-260000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
505 PM CST TUE FEB 25 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...

JUST AFTER 5 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN JACKSON INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 25 TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF JACKSON NEAR WALNUT GROVE
AND CARTHAGE. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SOME HAIL AS
THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NORTH OF CANTON IN MADISON
COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE TOWARDS KOSCIUSKO.

IF A THUNDERSTORM IS APPROACHING YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.
REMEMBER IF ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO HEAR THE THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH
TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 25, 4:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNewton34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.