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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Jackson, MS

March 24, 1994Madison County, Yazoo County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 3:29 PM CST for Madison County, Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 24, 1994, 3:29 PM CST (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 1994, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Madison County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 45 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 242132
SVRJAN
MSC089-163-242215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
329 PM CST THU MAR 24 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...MADISON COUNTY...EASTERN YAZOO COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VAUGHN IN EASTERN YAZOO COUNTY AT
325 PM CST. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR B(USINESS.
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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

Local storm report, Mar 24, 2:10 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
210 PM CST THU MAR 24 1994...DELAYED REPORT...

1230 - 1 PM CST...NESHOBA COUNTY MS CD REPORTS DAMAGE TO
                  TRAILER ROOF 4 NNE OF PH,ILADELPHIA MS.
                  REPORTED 24/1358 CST.

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, 2:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	57 min
Mar 24, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	64 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

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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.