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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 351, NWS Jackson, MS

November 5, 1994Calhoun County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 1994, 9:26 AM CST for Calhoun County, Mississippi. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 5, 1994, 9:26 AM CST (15:26 UTC)
Expired: Nov 5, 1994, 10:30 AM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Calhoun County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 518 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

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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

Special weather statement, Nov 5, 8:52 AM CST, 34 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 5, 6:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	44 min
Nov 5, 7:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington	47 min
Nov 5, 7:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore, Tallahatchie	48 min
Nov 5, 8:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	48 min
Nov 5, 8:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	51 min
Nov 5, 8:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Leflore	62 min
Nov 5, 8:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yalobusha	62 min
Nov 5, 9:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	68 min
Nov 5, 10:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	28 min
Nov 5, 11:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	53 min
Nov 5, 11:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	34 min
Nov 5, 12:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	50 min
Nov 5, 1:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion, Walthall	63 min
Nov 5, 2:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	69 min
Nov 5, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln, Pike	48 min
Nov 5, 2:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Walthall	46 min
Nov 5, 3:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	32 min
Nov 5, 3:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	50 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.