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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Jackson, MS

January 18, 1995Pike County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1995, 5:04 PM CST for Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 18, 1995, 5:04 PM CST (23:04 UTC)
Expired: Jan 18, 1995, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Pike County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 322 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

Special weather statement, Jan 18, 5:00 PM CST, 4 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
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	Humphreys, Yazoo	51 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

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.