Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 9, 1994, 5:01 PM CST for Amite County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 1994, 5:01 PM CST (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 9, 1994, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Amite County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KJAN 092305 RRA SVRJAN MSC005-092345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 501 PM CST WED FEB 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...AMITE COUNTY AT 505 PM CST... RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE LOUISIANA - MISSISSIPPI STATE LINE ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CENTREVILLE. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING ISOUTH AMITE COUNTY BETWEEN LIBERTY AND THE STATE LINE DURING THE NEXT HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. <
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, Feb 9, 4:15 PM CST, 46 minutes before
MSZ060>082-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 415 PM CST WED FEB 9 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 410 PM CST... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... GENERALLY FROM THE MISSISSIPPI - LOUISIANA BORDER SOUTH OF WOODVILLE TO OSYKA TO NEAR TYLERTOWN TO PRENTISS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING JUST SOUTHWEST OF TYLERTOWN AND NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN WALTHALL AS WELL AS MARION... JEFFERSON DAVIS... AND COVINGTON COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.
Special weather statement, Feb 9, 4:15 PM CST, 46 minutes before
MSZ060>082-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 415 PM CST WED FEB 9 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 410 PM CST... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... GENERALLY FROM THE MISSISSIPPI - LOUISIANA BORDER SOUTH OF WOODVILLE TO OSYKA TO NEAR TYLERTOWN TO PRENTISS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING JUST SOUTHWEST OF TYLERTOWN AND NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN WALTHALL AS WELL AS MARION... JEFFERSON DAVIS... AND COVINGTON COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.
Nearby
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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.