Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 4, 1993, 3:57 AM CST for Adams County, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 1993, 3:57 AM CST (09:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 4, 1993, 4:30 AM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 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
Special weather statement, Dec 4, 3:21 AM CST, 36 minutes before
MSZALL-041030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 321 AM CST SAT DEC 4 1993 ...STRONG WINDS TO ACCOMPANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 315 AM CDT...THE LEADING EDGE OF HEAVY RAINSHOWERS STRETCHED FROM NORTHEAST OF VICKSBURG NEAR REDWOOD....BACK TO GRAND GULF AND WOODVILLE IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. AS THESE SHOWERS...AND POSSIBLY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AT OR ABOVE 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. UPPER AIR WINDS ALONG AND BEHIND THESE SHOWERS WERE FAIRLY STRONG...AND WILL LIKELY WORK DOWN TO THE SURFACE. PERSONS LIVING IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE STRONG WINDS. THE WINDS WILL EVENTUALLY DIMINISH AND SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. &
Special weather statement, Dec 4, 3:22 AM CST, 35 minutes before
MSZALL-041030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 321 AM CST SAT DEC 4 1993 ...STRONG WINDS TO ACCOMPANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 315 AM CDT...THE LEADING EDGE OF HEAVY RAINSHOWERS STRETCHED FROM NORTHEAST OF VICKSBURG NEAR REDWOOD....BACK TO GRAND GULF AND WOODVILLE IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. AS THESE SHOWERS...AND POSSIBLY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AT OR ABOVE 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. UPPER AIR WINDS ALONG AND BEHIND THESE SHOWERS WERE FAIRLY STRONG...AND WILL LIKELY WORK DOWN TO THE SURFACE. PERSONS LIVING IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE STRONG WINDS. THE WINDS WILL EVENTUALLY DIMINISH AND SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 5:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Dec 4, 5:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 49 min |
| Dec 4, 5:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Amite | 38 min |
| Dec 4, 6:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Pike | 30 min |
| Dec 4, 6:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 39 min |
| Dec 4, 7:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 29 min |
| Dec 4, 7:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1993Every 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.