Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1994, 9:39 AM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1994, 9:39 AM CST (15:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1994, 10:30 AM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lauderdale County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 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, Mar 9, 9:22 AM CST, 17 minutes before
MSZ038-039-045-046-051-052-057-058-066-067-091615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 919 AM CST WED MAR 9 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 27 WHICH INCLUDES ALL COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI EXCEPT NESHOBA WINSTON AND NOXUBEE COUNTIES REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST... AT 915 AM CST MERIDIAN RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 90 MILES WIDE FROM NEAR POPLARVILLE MISSISSIPPI TO FOREST MISSISSIPPI TO TUSCALOOSA ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR BAY SPRINGS AND SOUTH OF NEWTON MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH WHILE THE AREA OF RAIN AND STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS IN OR CLOSE TO THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 7:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Pike | 48 min |
| Mar 9, 8:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Mar 9, 8:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 8:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 9:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 51 min |
| Mar 9, 9:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion, Walthall | 31 min |
| Mar 9, 10:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 35 min |
| Mar 9, 10:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 10:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 10:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 39 min |
| Mar 9, 11:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones, Wayne | 66 min |
| Mar 9, 11:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 45 min |
| Mar 9, 11:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 53 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.