Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1993, 1:13 AM CST for Leake County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 1993, 1:13 AM CST (07:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 1993, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leake County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 7:28 PM CST, 5 hours 45 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, 5 hours 14 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, 4 hours 24 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, 3 hours 1 minute 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, 2 hours 26 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.Special weather statement, Mar 31, 12:56 AM CST, 17 minutes before
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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, 12:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 51 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, 1:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.