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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Jackson, MS

February 25, 1992Newton County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 1992, 6:14 PM CST for Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 25, 1992, 6:14 PM CST (00:14 UTC)
Expired
Feb 25, 1992, 7:00 PM CST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Newton County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 00:00Z on 1992-02-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 690 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 00:00Z on 1992-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
690 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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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, 1 hour 50 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, 1 hour 7 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.
Local storm report, Feb 25, 5:39 PM CST, 35 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
535 PM CST TUE FEB 25 1992

415 PM CST...NEWTON COUNTY S. O. REPORTS DIME-SIZED HAIL IN
             LITTLE ROCK MISSISSIPPI. (12 NE NEWTON MS)
Special weather statement, Feb 25, 5:39 PM CST, 35 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013-
ALZ004-008-013-016-260030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
 534 PM CST TUE FEB 25 1992

 ....THUNDERSTOR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 25, 6:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLauderdale42 min
Feb 25, 7:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChoctaw25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.