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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Jackson, MS

June 25, 1994Holmes County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1994, 5:43 PM CDT for Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 1994, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Holmes County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 423 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 252246 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC051-252315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
543 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...HOLMES COUNTY
 
AT 543 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF LEXINGTON
MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH. THIS STORM PRODUCED GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
IN SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY DURING THE LAST HOUR.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.
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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

Local storm report, Jun 25, 3:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
358 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994..

342 PM CDT...CHEM WASTE REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR EMELLE ALABAMA
             (10 NW OF LIVINGSTON AL) IN SUMTER COUNTY ALABAMA.

Local storm report, Jun 25, 3:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
358 PM CDT SAT JUN 25 1994..

342 PM CDT...CHEM WASTE REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR EMELLE ALABAMA
             (10 NW OF LIVINGSTON AL) IN SUMTER COUNTY ALABAMA.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	58 min
Jun 25, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	58 min
Jun 25, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	60 min
Jun 25, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	51 min
Jun 25, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	48 min
Jun 25, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Calhoun	42 min
Jun 25, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	37 min
Jun 25, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Calhoun	26 min
Jun 25, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes	43 min
Jun 25, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Calhoun	67 min
Jun 25, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	42 min
Jun 25, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	43 min
Jun 25, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	40 min
Jun 25, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	48 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.