Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 269, NWS Jackson, MS

June 27, 1994Sumter County, Alabama

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 7:11 AM CDT for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1994, 7:11 AM CDT (12:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1994, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 64 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, 0.2 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: 2061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 485 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.2
Supercell composite: 20.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 27, 2:22 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

MSZ038-039-045-046-051-052-057-058-066-067-ALZ030-051-270930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
222 AM CDT MON JUN 27 1994

AT 220 PM CDT MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A 15 MILE WIDE BAND OF
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO WINSTON COUNTY
MISSISSIPPI DURING THE NEXT 40 MINUTES.

INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS...AND
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.  ALSO...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME TORNADIC
PRODUCING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

MSZ038-039-045-046-051-052-057-058-066-067-ALZ030-051-270930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
222 AM CDT MON JUN 27 1994

AT 220 PM CDT MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A 15 MILE WIDE BAND OF
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO WINSTON COUNTY
MISSISSIPPI DURING THE NEXT 40 MINUTES.

INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS...AND
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.  ALSO...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME TORNADIC
PRODUCING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:49 AM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

MSZ038-039-045-046-051-052-057-058-066-067-ALZ030-051-271045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
349 AM CDT MON JUN 27 1994

AT 350 AM CDT MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A 15 MILE WIDE BAND OF
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LOUISVILLE...MACON LINE IN WINSTON...AND
NOXUBEE COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
25 MPH AND WILL BE ENTERING NESHOBA AND KEMPER COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT
30 MINUTES.

INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS...AND
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.  PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK
SHELTER IMMEDIATLEY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

MSZ038-039-045-046-051-052-057-058-066-067-ALZ030-051-271045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
349 AM CDT MON JUN 27 1994

AT 350 AM CDT MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A 15 MILE WIDE BAND OF
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LOUISVILLE...MACON LINE IN WINSTON...AND
NOXUBEE COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
25 MPH AND WILL BE ENTERING NESHOBA AND KEMPER COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT
30 MINUTES.

INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS...AND
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.  PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK
SHELTER IMMEDIATLEY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:25 AM CDT, 46 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:26 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Calhoun	33 min
Jun 27, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Calhoun	28 min
Jun 27, 1:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Calhoun	37 min
Jun 27, 1:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Webster	37 min
Jun 27, 2:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Calhoun, Yalobusha	40 min
Jun 27, 2:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	63 min
Jun 27, 3:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Calhoun, Webster	39 min
Jun 27, 4:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Webster	29 min
Jun 27, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	29 min
Jun 27, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	56 min
Jun 27, 5:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	58 min
Jun 27, 5:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	48 min
Jun 27, 4:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sumter	63 min
Jun 27, 6:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sumter	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.