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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Jackson, MS

February 25, 1992Choctaw County, Alabama

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 1992, 7:20 PM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 25, 1992, 7:20 PM CST (01:20 UTC)
Expired: Feb 25, 1992, 7:45 PM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Choctaw County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

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

000 
TTAA00 KMEI 260120
SVRMEI
ALC023-260145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
720 PM CST TUE FEB 25 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...CHOCTAW COUNTY
 
AT 719 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF
BUTLER ALABAMA 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 RAIN S 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, 2 hours 56 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, 2 hours 13 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, 1 hour 41 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, 1 hour 41 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

Local storm report, Feb 25, 7:10 PM CST, 10 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
705 PM CST TUE FEB 25 1992

550 PM CST...KEMPER COUNTY S. O. REPORTS NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
             LINES DOWN ALONG WITH GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL 5 MILES
             NORTHEAST OF SCOOBA MISSISSIPPI. (15 NE DEKALB MS)

655 PM CST...NUMEROUS PUBLIC REPORTS OF DIME-SIZE HAIL IN COLLINSVILLE
             MISSISSIPPI. (12 NE MERIDIAN MS)

Local storm report, Feb 25, 7:16 PM CST, 4 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
705 PM CST TUE FEB 25 1992

550 PM CST...KEMPER COUNTY S. O. REPORTS NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
             LINES DOWN ALONG WITH GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL 5 MILES
             NORTHEAST OF SCOOBA MISSISSIPPI. (15 NE DEKALB MS)

655 PM CST...NUMEROUS PUBLIC REPORTS OF DIME-SIZE HAIL IN COLLINSVILLE
             MISSISSIPPI. (12 NE MERIDIAN MS)

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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.