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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Jackson, MS

March 6, 1995Leflore County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 5:19 PM CST for Leflore County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 1995, 5:19 PM CST (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1995, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Leflore County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 853 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 6, 1:10 PM CST, 4 hours 9 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
110 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995

109 PM CST...JONES COUNTY CD REPORTS NICKLE SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGE
             TO PATROL CAR IN WESTERN LAUREL MISSISSIPPI.

Local storm report, Mar 6, 1:14 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
110 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995

109 PM CST...JONES COUNTY CD REPORTS NICKLE SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGE
             TO PATROL CAR IN WESTERN LAUREL MISSISSIPPI.

Local storm report, Mar 6, 2:51 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
251 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995

245 PM CST...LAUDERDALE CD REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL AND STRONG
             WINDS 5 MILES NORTH OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI.

Local storm report, Mar 6, 2:53 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
251 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995

245 PM CST...LAUDERDALE CD REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL AND STRONG
             WINDS 5 MILES NORTH OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 12:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	46 min
Mar 6, 12:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	56 min
Mar 6, 1:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	53 min
Mar 6, 1:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	55 min
Mar 6, 1:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Smith	32 min
Mar 6, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	27 min
Mar 6, 1:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	48 min
Mar 6, 1:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	43 min
Mar 6, 1:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	47 min
Mar 6, 2:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	68 min
Mar 6, 2:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	61 min
Mar 6, 2:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	40 min
Mar 6, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	65 min
Mar 6, 2:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	34 min
Mar 6, 2:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	42 min
Mar 6, 3:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	51 min
Mar 6, 3:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	64 min
Mar 6, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	59 min
Mar 6, 3:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	43 min
Mar 6, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	49 min
Mar 6, 3:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	41 min
Mar 6, 4:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	34 min
Mar 6, 4:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	39 min
Mar 6, 4:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	43 min
Mar 6, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	37 min
Mar 6, 5:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys	28 min
Mar 6, 5:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	36 min
Mar 6, 5:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	46 min
Mar 6, 5:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	54 min
Mar 6, 5:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	47 min

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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.