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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Jackson, MS

March 24, 1994Newton County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 2:33 PM CST for Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 24, 1994, 2:33 PM CST (20:33 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 1994, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Newton County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 1052 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 5.5

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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

Local storm report, Mar 24, 2:10 PM CST, 23 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
Mar 24, 1:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	29 min
Mar 24, 1:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	45 min
Mar 24, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	36 min
Mar 24, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	64 min
Mar 24, 3:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	46 min
Mar 24, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	51 min
Mar 24, 5:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.