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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Jackson, MS

April 21, 1995Forrest County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1995, 1:32 AM CDT for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 21, 1995, 1:32 AM CDT (06:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Forrest County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 2256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 12.2

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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

Special weather statement, Apr 20, 11:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 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
Apr 20, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	41 min
Apr 20, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	49 min
Apr 20, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	29 min
Apr 20, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	52 min
Apr 20, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	42 min
Apr 20, 8:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	3 hr
Apr 20, 8:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leake	3 hr
Apr 20, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba	44 min
Apr 20, 8:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds	3 hr
Apr 20, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	50 min
Apr 20, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	51 min
Apr 20, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	52 min
Apr 21, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	54 min
Apr 20, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	44 min
Apr 20, 8:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Madison	3 hr

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.