Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1995, 2:39 PM CST for Humphreys County, Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1995, 2:39 PM CST (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1995, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Humphreys County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jan 18, 9:25 AM CST, 5 hours 14 minutes before
MSZ001>082-180400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 0930 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE OUT OF TEXAS THROUGH LOUISIANA AND INTO MISSISSIPPI AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING THIS MORNING OVER EASTERN TEXAS AND THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL THERE. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SPREADING INTO SOUTHWESTERN AND WEST-CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST TONIGHT. IT IS LIKELY THAT THERE WILL BE MULTIPLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCHES THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES WILL BE OVER THE SOUTHERN THREE QUARTERS OF MISSISSIPPI... BUT ALL OF THE STATE WILL BE AT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER LATER TODAY. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT... HAM OPERATORS AND SPOTTER NETWORKS IS VERY LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUING INTO TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 9:30 AM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
MSZ001>082-180400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 0930 AM CST WED JAN 18 1995 A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE OUT OF TEXAS THROUGH LOUISIANA AND INTO MISSISSIPPI AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING THIS MORNING OVER EASTERN TEXAS AND THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL THERE. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SPREADING INTO SOUTHWESTERN AND WEST-CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST TONIGHT. IT IS LIKELY THAT THERE WILL BE MULTIPLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCHES THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES WILL BE OVER THE SOUTHERN THREE QUARTERS OF MISSISSIPPI... BUT ALL OF THE STATE WILL BE AT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER LATER TODAY. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT... HAM OPERATORS AND SPOTTER NETWORKS IS VERY LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUING INTO TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 2:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Amite, Pike | 52 min |
| Jan 18, 2:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 54 min |
| Jan 18, 2:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 51 min |
| Jan 18, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Leflore | 45 min |
| Jan 18, 3:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Leflore | 54 min |
| Jan 18, 3:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 46 min |
| Jan 18, 3:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll | 40 min |
| Jan 18, 3:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada, Montgomery | 52 min |
| Jan 18, 3:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Webster | 48 min |
| Jan 18, 4:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Amite, Pike | 54 min |
| Jan 18, 4:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 47 min |
| Jan 18, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Pike | 26 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.