Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 1995, 3:12 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 1995, 3:12 PM CST (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 1995, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEI 062113 RRA SVRMEI MSC153-062200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 312 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...WAYNE COUNTY AT 310 PM CST...MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY...5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUCCATUNA MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR@ ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Jan 6, 11:48 AM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-061945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1148 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 2 FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INCLUDING WINSTON AND NESHOBA COUNTIES CONTINUES UNTIL 1 PM CST... AT 1142 AM CST...A BROAD BAND OF RAIN ALONG WITH WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM COLUMBUS TO LOUISVILLE...CARTHAGE...AND CRYSTAL SPRINGS MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGER STORMS APPEAR BETWEEN YAZOO CITY AND ACKERMAN. THIS BAND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE STORMS WITH THE BAND MOVED NORTHEAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THIS BAND FROM MERIDIAN SOUTH TO MCLAIN AND WEST TO D'LO MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS INDICATED NEAR HEILDELBERG. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD STAY ALERT IN CASE WATCHES/WARNING ARE ISSUED FARTHER EAST. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
Special weather statement, Jan 6, 11:49 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-061945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1148 AM CST FRI JAN 6 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 2 FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INCLUDING WINSTON AND NESHOBA COUNTIES CONTINUES UNTIL 1 PM CST... AT 1142 AM CST...A BROAD BAND OF RAIN ALONG WITH WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM COLUMBUS TO LOUISVILLE...CARTHAGE...AND CRYSTAL SPRINGS MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGER STORMS APPEAR BETWEEN YAZOO CITY AND ACKERMAN. THIS BAND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE STORMS WITH THE BAND MOVED NORTHEAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THIS BAND FROM MERIDIAN SOUTH TO MCLAIN AND WEST TO D'LO MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WAS INDICATED NEAR HEILDELBERG. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD STAY ALERT IN CASE WATCHES/WARNING ARE ISSUED FARTHER EAST. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
Local storm report, Jan 6, 1:32 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1327 CST...NESHOBA MS CD REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL 31/2 MI SE
OF PHILADELPHIA MSLocal storm report, Jan 6, 1:32 PM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1327 CST...NESHOBA MS CD REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL 31/2 MI SE
OF PHILADELPHIA MSLocal storm report, Jan 6, 1:33 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
133 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995
1327 CST...NESHOBA MS CD REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL 31/2 MI SE
OF PHILADELPHIA MSLocal storm report, Jan 6, 2:55 PM CST, 17 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
255 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995
205-10 PM CST...2 TO 6 MILES EAST OF MOSSELL MISSISSIPPI TREES
DOWN...2 OUT BLDGS AND 1 HOUSE TRAILER WITH MINOR
DAMAGE. JONES COUNTY MS
225 PM CST......JONES COUNTY MS CD REPORTS TREES DOWN ALONG THE
JONES/WAYNE COUNTY LINE. TREE TOPS DAMAGED INTO
WAYNE COUNTY.
215 PM CST.....HOUSE TRAILER TURNED OVER ON I-20 IN WESTERN LAUDERDALE
COUNTY MISSISSIPPI DUE TO HIGH WINDS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 7:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 38 min |
| Jan 6, 8:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 43 min |
| Jan 6, 8:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tallahatchie | 41 min |
| Jan 6, 9:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower, Washington | 30 min |
| Jan 6, 9:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 36 min |
| Jan 6, 10:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 64 min |
| Jan 6, 10:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Leflore | 26 min |
| Jan 6, 11:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Amite | 32 min |
| Jan 6, 11:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Amite, Lincoln, Pike | 48 min |
| Jan 6, 12:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 33 min |
| Jan 6, 12:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw | 54 min |
| Jan 6, 1:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 58 min |
| Jan 6, 1:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 55 min |
| Jan 6, 1:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 25 min |
| Jan 6, 1:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 49 min |
| Jan 6, 2:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 28 min |
| Jan 6, 2:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 63 min |
| Jan 6, 2:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Wayne | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.