Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Jackson, MS
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 5:50 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Kemper, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 34 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.