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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Jackson, MS

November 14, 1993Yazoo County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 14, 1993, 3:22 PM CST for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 14, 1993, 3:22 PM CST (21:22 UTC)
Expired: Nov 14, 1993, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Yazoo County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 1454 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 10.6

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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, Nov 14, 2:07 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 14, 2:08 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 14, 2:12 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 14, 2:15 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 14, 3:11 PM CST, 11 minutes before

MSZ038-039-045-046-051-052-057-058-066-067-142215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
311 PM CST SUN NOV 14 1993

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 944 WHICH INCLUDES WINSTON COUNTY IN EAST
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST...

AT 308 PM CST MERIDIAN RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS
IN AN AREA 50 MILES WIDE FROM NEAR STARKVILLE MISSISSIPPI SOUTHWARD TO
NEAR LAUREL. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF
DEKALB MISSSSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35
H
PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION SHOULD
THREATENING WEATHER OCCUR.

Special weather statement, Nov 14, 3:12 PM CST, 10 minutes before

MSZ038-039-045-046-051-052-057-058-066-067-142215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
311 PM CST SUN NOV 14 1993

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 944 WHICH INCLUDES WINSTON COUNTY IN EAST
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST...

AT 308 PM CST MERIDIAN RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS
IN AN AREA 50 MILES WIDE FROM NEAR STARKVILLE MISSISSIPPI SOUTHWARD TO
NEAR LAUREL. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF
DEKALB MISSSSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35
H
PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION SHOULD
THREATENING WEATHER OCCUR.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 12:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	26 min
Nov 14, 1:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	36 min
Nov 14, 1:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey, Washington	32 min
Nov 14, 2:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Leflore	59 min
Nov 14, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	48 min
Nov 14, 4:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	44 min
Nov 14, 5:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	44 min
Nov 14, 5:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	29 min
Nov 14, 5:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.