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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 5:48 PM CDT for Covington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1994, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Covington County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 2113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
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, Apr 15, 4:48 PM CDT, 1 hour before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
446 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994
440 PM CDT...ONE LARGE (2 FEET DIA.) TREE BLOCKING FOX ROAD NEAR
HWY 19 S. ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MERIDIAN IN
LAUDERDALE CO.Local storm report, Apr 15, 5:00 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
452 CDT FRI APR 15 1994
442 PM CDT...PUBLIC REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD IN NE LAUDERDALE COUNTY
MS NEAR CAMPGROUND RD...TRAVELING SOUTH TOWARD DALE
WOOD...ON HWY 45. DID NOT TOUCH DOWN...LOTS OF LIMBS
ON ROAD.
440 PM CDT...NEWTOWN COUNTY 1 MILE EAST OF HICKORY MS 3 LARGE 100
YEAR OLD TREES DOWN. SEVERAL HOMES ROOF DAMAGE. OTHER
( TREES DOWN IN AREA ALSO DOWN. REPORTED BY OFFDUTY FAA
PERSON.
455 PM CDT...LAUDERDALE CTY MS LEMA REPORTED NUMEROUS REPORTS OF
TREES DOWN IN THE RUSSELL VICINITY NORTHEAST OF MERIDIAN.Special weather statement, Apr 15, 5:05 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
MSZ001>082-152300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 500 PM CDT FRI APR 15 1994 ...SEVERE WEATHER THREAT ENDS OVER NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF MISSISSIPPI... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 94 FOR NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI HAS BEEN CANCELLED NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ROLLING FORK TO WATER VALLEY. ALTHOUGH SOME RAINFALL MAY CONTINUE FOR A FEW HOURS IN THE DELTA AREA ...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED. THIS MEA8NS THAT SUCH COMMUNITIES AS CLEVELAND...GREENVILLE...GREENWOOD...AND CHARLESTON ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. ADDITIONAL AREAS WILL BE CLEARED AS THE THREAT ENDS FROM THE NORTHWEST LATER THIS EVENING.
Local storm report, Apr 15, 5:17 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
515 CDT FRI APR 15 1994
422 PM CDT...CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR JASPER CO. REPORTS MANY TREES
DOWN HWY 18 BETWEEN ROSE HILL AND PACHUTA. R`OAD IS
BLOCKED.Special weather statement, Apr 15, 5:37 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 6:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison | 42 min |
| Apr 15, 6:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 37 min |
| Apr 15, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 7:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 53 min |
| Apr 15, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 45 min |
| Apr 15, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 8:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 8:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 69 min |
| Apr 15, 9:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 10:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 11:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 65 min |
| Apr 15, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Pike, Walthall | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 67 min |
| Apr 15, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 56 min |
| Apr 15, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 56 min |
| Apr 15, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 69 min |
| Apr 15, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 59 min |
| Apr 15, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 25 min |
| Apr 15, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 68 min |
| Apr 15, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Wilkinson | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 39 min |
| Apr 15, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 28 min |
| Apr 15, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 26 min |
| Apr 15, 10:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sumter | 68 min |
| Apr 15, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sumter | 64 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.