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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Jackson, MS

March 31, 1993Franklin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1993, 12:09 AM CST for Franklin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 1993, 12:09 AM CST (06:09 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 1993, 1:00 AM CST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 2175 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 10.4

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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

Local storm report, Mar 30, 7:23 PM CST, 4 hours 46 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
720 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

715 PM CST...STATE C.D. REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 3 MILES
             SOUTHEAST OF NEWTON IN NEWTON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI.

Local storm report, Mar 30, 7:28 PM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
728 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

725 PM CST...LAUDERDALE COUNTY C.D. REPORTED DIME AND NICKLE SIZE
             HAIL IN MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPPI.

Local storm report, Mar 30, 7:59 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
800 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

708 PM CST...CLARKE COUNTY S. O. REPORTS DIME-SIZE HAIL IN STONEWALL
             MS.
715 PM CST...CLARKE COUNTY S. O.
REPORTS DIME-SIZE HAIL IN PACHUTA MS.

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 8:49 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes before

MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-310345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
849 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

TORNADO WATCH WHICH INCLUDES ALL COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
AND SUMTER AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES IN EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA IN
EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

AT 836 PM CST MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A 20 MILE WIDE AREA OF
VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM BAY SPRINGS TO LAUDERDALE
MISSISSIPPI.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED JUST NORTHWEST OF
MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI.  ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WERE INDICATED ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI.  THE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

PERSONS IN AND CLOSE zTO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 10:12 PM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before

MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-310615-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1011 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL
MISSISSIPPI AND SUMTER AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES IN EXTREME WEST CENTRAL
ALABAMA.

AT 1010 PM CST MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND
SCATTERED EXTREME THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND WEST
CENTRAL ALABAMA.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN NESHOBA AND KEMPER
COUNTIES.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

Local storm report, Mar 30, 10:47 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1045 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

TIME(CST)       LOCATION            REMARKS

DELAYED REPORTS.....

630 PM       BWTN BELZONI-HOLLANDALE   FUNNEL CLOUD
               WEST HUMPHREYS COUNTY

650 PM         MOOREHEAD              PEA SIZE HAIL
               LEFLORE COUNTY

745 PM         PORT GIBSON            GOLF BALL HAIL
               CLAIBORNE COUNTY

805 PM         DREW                   PEA SIZE HAIL
               SUNFLOWER COUNTY
807PM            UTICA               GOLF BALL HAIL
                 HINDS COUNTY

851 PM          HINDS-COPIAL COUNTY LINE   GOLF BALL HAIL

                NUMEROUS GOLF BALL TO MARBLE HAIL IN HINDS0
                COUNTY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 6:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	47 min
Mar 30, 6:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Smith	40 min
Mar 30, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	34 min
Mar 30, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	49 min
Mar 30, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower, Washington	44 min
Mar 30, 6:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	55 min
Mar 30, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	44 min
Mar 30, 6:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	53 min
Mar 30, 6:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	46 min
Mar 30, 7:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	56 min
Mar 30, 7:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Warren	65 min
Mar 30, 7:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	65 min
Mar 30, 7:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	43 min
Mar 30, 7:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	54 min
Mar 30, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	49 min
Mar 30, 7:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds	57 min
Mar 30, 8:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Washington	57 min
Mar 30, 8:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	46 min
Mar 30, 11:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	36 min
Mar 31, 12:22 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Washington	53 min
Mar 31, 12:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	46 min
Mar 31, 1:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	32 min
Mar 31, 1:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	50 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.