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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Jackson, MS

April 22, 1995Marion County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1995, 5:19 PM CDT for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 1995, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Marion County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 1300 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 22, 11:22 AM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before

MSZ040-052-221700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO DELETE BAD TEXT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1115 AM CDT SAT APR 22 1995

...TORNADO WATCH 242 NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI..
...TORNADO WATCH 244 REMAIINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL
   1PM...
...FLOOD WATCH FOR MOST OF MISSISSIPPI THROUGH MIDNIGHT...

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 242 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL
MISSISSIPPI.

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF VICKSBURG...JACKSON AND MERIDIAN.

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 244 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1PM FOR NATCHEZ...
HAZELHURST...HATTIESBURG...MCCOMB...WAYNESBORO AND POPLARVILLE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL TELEVISION AND RADIO
FOR ANY" FURTHER UPDATES.

Special weather statement, Apr 22, 1:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 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 22, 4:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	49 min
Apr 22, 4:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	52 min
Apr 22, 4:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey	52 min
Apr 22, 4:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena	33 min
Apr 22, 5:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sharkey	30 min
Apr 22, 5:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	40 min
Apr 22, 5:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	38 min
Apr 22, 5:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	34 min
Apr 22, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	50 min
Apr 22, 6:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	43 min
Apr 22, 6:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	32 min
Apr 22, 6:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	41 min
Apr 22, 7:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	44 min
Apr 22, 7:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson	46 min
Apr 22, 8:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Smith	56 min
Apr 22, 9:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Warren	58 min
Apr 22, 10:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Jefferson	66 min
Apr 22, 10:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	47 min
Apr 22, 10:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	44 min
Apr 22, 10:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar	61 min
Apr 22, 11:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Jefferson	3 hr
Apr 22, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	59 min
Apr 22, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	63 min
Apr 22, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	31 min
Apr 22, 3:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	55 min
Apr 22, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	West Carroll	46 min
Apr 22, 10:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia, Tensas	55 min
Apr 22, 10:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin, Tensas	50 min
Apr 22, 11:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	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.