Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1992, 4:48 AM CST for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1992, 4:48 AM CST (10:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1992, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumter County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 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 301049 SVRMEI ALC119-301130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 448 AM CST MON MAR 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...SUMTER COUNTY AT 0447 MERIDIAN RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIVINGSTON ALABAMA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 30, 2:14 AM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
MSZALL-300915-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED WEATHER WATCH NUMBER
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
206 AM CST MON MAR 30 1992
... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 106 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM CST
FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSISSIPPI ...
... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH WESTERN AND NORTHERN
SECTIONS OF THE STATE ...
AT 155 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF THEM
STRONG...EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF HOLLANDALE TO JUST NORTH OF
WOODVILLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS LINE WERE LOCATED NEAR
NATCHEZ...OVER SOUTHERN ISSAQUENA COUNTY AND JUST NORTH OF ROLLING
FORK. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING THROUGH HOLMES
COUNTY...ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF LEXINGTON AND JUST WEST OF DURANT.
ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. IF THESE
STORMS CONTINUE THEIR PRESENT MOVEMENT...FOLKS IN HUMPHREYS...YAZOO...
WARREN...AND HINDS COUNTIES WILL LIKELY GET ANOTHER ROUND OF BAD
WEATHER BY 3 AM. THE STORMS IN THE NATCHEZ AREA WILL LIKELY AFFECT
PERSONS IN FRANKLIN AND JEFFERSON COUNTY BY 3 AM. THE STORMS IN
HOLMES COUNTY CAN BE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO CARROLL AND ATTALA
COUNTIES BY 230 AM.
MANY "OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT HAVE CONTAINED LARGE HAIL AND IT IS
VERY LIKELY THAT MORE OF THE SAME CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDER-
STORMS.Local storm report, Mar 30, 3:10 AM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
315 AM CST MON MAR 30 1992
TIME(CST) LOCATION(MILES) REMARKS
1220 AM VICKSBURG GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY POLICE.
1220 AM NEAR BALLGROUND PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY WARREN COUNTY
WARREN COUNTY SHERIFF.
220 AM ADAMS COUNTY PEA SIZE HAIL BY ADAMS SHERIFF OFFICE.
1234 AM 10 NE OF VICKSBURG NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY WARREN
COUNTY 911.
110 AM N HINDS COUNTY GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL JACKSON-HINDS EOC.
150 AM MADISON MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
230 AM VICKSBURG PEBBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY POLICE.Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:39 AM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
MSZALL-301045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 338 AM CST MON MAR 30 1992 ... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 106 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM CST THIS MON
Local storm report, Mar 30, 3:49 AM CST, 59 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
350 AM CST MON MAR 30 1992
340 AM CST...NEWTON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED QUARTER
SIZE HAIL TWO INCHES DEEP 2 MILES NORTH OF NEWTON
MISSISSIPPI.Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:01 AM CST, 47 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
400 AM CST MON MAR 30 1992
357 AM CST...LAUDERDALE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED DIME SIZE
HAIL IN COLLINSVILLE MISSISSIPPI (12 NW OCF MERIDIAN MS).Special weather statement, Mar 30, 4:15 AM CST, 33 minutes before
MSZALL-301115-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
414 AM CST MON MAR 30 1992
... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 106 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 5 AM CST...
... A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN OVER THE SOUTH-CENTRAL CENTRAL
PART OF THE STATE ...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS GENERALLY
EAST OF LINE FROM MENTER CITY...TO BELZONI...TO EDWARDS...TO
GLOSTER UNTIL 5 AM CST.
AT ABOUT 4 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MCCOMB
...TYLERTOWN...WALNUT GROVE...AND NEAR MERIDIAN. THE THUNDER-
STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH.
THE AREAL COVERAGE AND INTENSITY OF MOST STORMS HAVE SHOWN A DECREASE
OVER THE LAST HOUR. HOWEVER...IF YOU ARE IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH AREA YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO REMAIN ALERT IN THE EVENT THAT ANY
MORE WARNINGS BECOME NECESSARY.Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.