Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 1994, 11:26 AM CST for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 1994, 11:26 AM CST (17:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 1994, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yazoo County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 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
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, Nov 5, 8:52 AM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Nov 5, 9:52 AM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
MSZ001>082-060300- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 952 AM CDT SAT NOV 05 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 3 PM CST... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 2 PM CST TODAY... A STRONG STORM SYSTEM PUSHING INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES BRINGING THE THREAT OF MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. ALREADY...NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE...WITH DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS BEING REPORTED AT MANY LOCATIONS IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. WITH THE AIRMASS CONTINUING TO BECOME EVEN MORE UNSTABLE...AND A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SEE THE POTENTIAL OF FURTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER ALL BUT THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE STATE. RESIDENTS OVER NORTHERN...CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD KEEP A WEATHER EYE OUT TODAY FOR THE SIGNS OF THREATENING WEATHER. FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS...TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR COMMERCIAL RADIO. CIVIL DEFENSE SPOTTERS SHOULD KEEP IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THEIR LOCAL OFFICES TODAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED FOR MANY LOCATIONS ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TODAY.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 9:56 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
MSZ001>082-060300- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTED TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 952 AM CDT SAT NOV 05 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 3 PM CST... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 2 PM CST TODAY... A STRONG STORM SYSTEM PUSHING INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES BRINGING THE THREAT OF MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. ALREADY...NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE...WITH DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS BEING REPORTED AT MANY LOCATIONS IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. WITH THE AIRMASS CONTINUING TO BECOME EVEN MORE UNSTABLE...AND A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SEE THE POTENTIAL OF FURTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER ALL BUT THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE STATE. RESIDENTS OVER NORTHERN...CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD KEEP A WEATHER EYE OUT TODAY FOR THE SIGNS OF THREATENING WEATHER. FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS...TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELE4VISION OR COMMERCIAL RADIO. CIVIL DEFENSE SPOTTERS SHOULD KEEP IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THEIR LOCAL OFFICES TODAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED FOR MANY LOCATIONS ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TODAY.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 11:14 AM CST, 12 minutes before
MSZ009-051915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1114 AM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 AT 11 AM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 891 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSISSIPPI...PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN ALABAMA... A LINE OF RAINSHOWERS AND HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO INVADE THE STATE. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE OF WEATHER EXTENDS FROM TUPELO TO HOUSTON MS...TO WINONA TO VICKSBURG. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING HIGH WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. ELSEWHERE... RAINSHOWERS HAVE DEVELOPED IN FRONT OF THIS LINE FROM ACKERMAN TO PHILADELPHIA TO CARTHAGE AND ALSO IN NEWTON...NORTH JASPER AND NORTHWEST LAUDERDALE COUNTIES. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ARE PRODUCING SPEEDS UP TO 30 MPH WELL OUT IN FRONT OF THE RAIN AREAS. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR WARNINGS DUE TO HIGH WINDS TO BE ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.
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, 9:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Calhoun | 64 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, 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1994Every 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.