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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Jackson, MS

March 30, 1993Jasper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 10:38 AM CST for Jasper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 1993, 10:38 AM CST (16:38 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 1993, 11:30 AM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Jasper County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 1103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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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, Mar 30, 5:03 AM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 30, 9:38 AM CST, 1 hour before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 9:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	37 min
Mar 30, 10:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	42 min
Mar 30, 11:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	43 min
Mar 30, 11:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	40 min
Mar 30, 12:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	26 min
Mar 30, 12:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	51 min
Mar 30, 2:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	68 min
Mar 30, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	45 min
Mar 30, 3:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	41 min
Mar 30, 3:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	55 min
Mar 30, 3:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	59 min
Mar 30, 4:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	66 min
Mar 30, 4:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Rankin, Simpson	51 min
Mar 30, 4:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	63 min
Mar 30, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	60 min
Mar 30, 5:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson, Smith	47 min
Mar 30, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sumter	61 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.