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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Jackson, MS

June 3, 1992Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1992, 2:42 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1992, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1992, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.

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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: 805 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jun 3, 1:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 1:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:57 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

MSZ002-003-006-008-032000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
155 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992

...TORNADO WATCH 281 FOR MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 7PM...

ALTHOUGH ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER
PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EAST MISSISSIPPI...STRONGER STORMS
WERE BEGINNING TO BE DETECTED ACROSS NORTHERN LOUISIANA.
THE STORMS IN LOUISIANA WERE MOVING EAST AND APPEARED TO
BE ACCELERATING. RESIDENTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST
MISSISSIPPI CAN LOOK FOR RAPID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
BETWEEN 3 AND 5PM THIS AFTERNOON.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION AND NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR QUICK ACTION
IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:00 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
155 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992

133 PM CDT...NESHOBA COUNTY C.D. REPORTES NICKEL SIZE HAIL
             10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILADELPHIA MISSISSIPPI
             IN NESHOBA COUNTY AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN THE
             SOUTHERN TIP OF NESHOBA COUNTY.

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:24 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013-MSZALL-
ALZ004-008-013-016-032030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
225 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992

...TORNADO WATCH 281 FOR A LARGE PART OF MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 7PM...

AT 225 PM WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL...CONTINUED DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND EAST MISSISSIPPI.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH WITH THE STRONGEST STORM IN HOLMES
COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF LEXINGTON.

OTHER STORMS WERE APPROACHING THE MONROE, LOUISIANA AREA RAPIDLY
FROM THE WEST. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL CONTAIN TORRENTIAL RAINS...
GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY DURING THE AFTERNOON
AND YOU ARE ADVISED TO KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THE WEATHER...BE READY
FOR QUICK ACTION IF THREATENING STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA.

Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:38 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
235 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1992

232 PM CDT...LAUDERDALE COUNTY C.D. REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL
             8 MILES EAST OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 11:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes	43 min
Jun 3, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	35 min
Jun 3, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	41 min
Jun 3, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	40 min
Jun 3, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	62 min
Jun 3, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	43 min
Jun 3, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	28 min
Jun 3, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	29 min
Jun 3, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar	36 min
Jun 3, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sumter	68 min
Jun 3, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	47 min
Jun 3, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sumter	58 min

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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.