Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1994, 2:08 PM CDT for Clarke County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1994, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1994, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clarke County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1448 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 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, Jun 13, 1:22 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
MSZ069-063-062-072-070-071-132030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 122 PM CDT MON JUN 13 1994 RADAR SHOWS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI FROM MEADVILLE TO SUMMIT TO COLUMBIA AND NORTHEAST TO BAY SPRINGS. ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PARTICULARLY HEAVY IN NORTH PIKE COUNTY AND SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY BETWEEN MCCOMB AND BROOKHAVEN WITH AMOUNTS BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES IN THE PAST 3 HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THIS AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS... INCREASING THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING IN NORTH PIKE COUNTY AND SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY. MOTORISTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR FLOODING OF UNDERPASSES AND LOW SPOTS ON ROADS... FREQUENT TORRENTIAL RAINS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES... AND POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. NEVER CROSS WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH ON ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHILE DRIVING FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. &
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:24 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
MSZ069-063-062-072-070-071-132030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 122 PM CDT MON JUN 13 1994 RADAR SHOWS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI FROM MEADVILLE TO SUMMIT TO COLUMBIA AND NORTHEAST TO BAY SPRINGS. ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PARTICULARLY HEAVY IN NORTH PIKE COUNTY AND SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY BETWEEN MCCOMB AND BROOKHAVEN WITH AMOUNTS BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES IN THE PAST 3 HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THIS AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS... INCREASING THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING IN NORTH PIKE COUNTY AND SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY. MOTORISTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR FLOODING OF UNDERPASSES AND LOW SPOTS ON ROADS... FREQUENT TORRENTIAL RAINS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES... AND POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. NEVER CROSS WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH ON ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHILE DRIVING FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Warren | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Winston | 32 min |
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.