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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Jackson, MS

March 30, 1993Sumter County, Alabama

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 4:59 PM CST for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 1993, 4:59 PM CST (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 1993, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Sumter County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Mar 30, 2:20 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before

MSZALL-302115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
220 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

...TORNADO WATCH 73 TILL 6 PM FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND MOST OF SOUTH-
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...

AT 215 PM CST...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEASTWARD AT 25 MPH ACROSS EAST-CENTRAL AND NORTH
MISSISSIPPI.  OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED OVER
SECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.  THE STRONGEST STORMS
GENERALLY EXTENDED FROM CANTON TO OXFORD.

THESE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY
RAIN...FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY
SOME SMALL HAIL.

THE LATEST SURFAChE DATA...NUMERICAL MODELS AND SATELLITE IMAGERY
INDICATED A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING EASTWARD INTO MISSISSIPPI
TONIGHT.  ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED
LATER TONIGHT.

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 2:37 PM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before

MSZ010-011-012-013-014-302145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
238 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

...TORNADO WATCH 73 TILL 6 PM FOR CENTRAL AND MOST OF SOUTH-
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...

AT 235 PM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER
PARTS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...PARTICULARLY FROM ABOUT PRENTISS TO
POPLARVILLE.  THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL AS THEY CONTINUE TO
INTENSIFY.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

Local storm report, Mar 30, 3:06 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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

301 PM CST...NESHOBA COUNTY C.D. REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES
             SOUTHWEST OF PHILDELPHIA.

Local storm report, Mar 30, 3:34 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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

331 PM CST...NESHOBA COUNTY C.D. REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL 8 MILES
             SOUTHEAST OF PHILDELPHIA MS...NEAR THE HOUSE MS.
             COMMUNITY.

Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:32 PM CST, 27 minutes before

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

420 PM CST...NAVY WEATHER OBSERVER REPORTS TORNADO 8 MILES
             SOUTHSOUTWEST OF MERIDIAN NAVAL AIR STATION. IT
             WAS MOVING RAPIDLY EAST.

Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:53 PM CST, 6 minutes before

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

415 PM CST...CD REPORTED SEVERAL 15 INCH PINE TREES DOWN AT
             COLLINSVILLE MS IN NORTHWEST LAUDERDALE COUNTY
             MISSISSIPPI.

447 PM CST...WINSTON COUNTY CD REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL 5 WEST
             OF NOXAPATER MISSISSIPPI IN WINSTON COUNTY.

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, 10:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	52 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

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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.