Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 1:29 PM CDT for Adams County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 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, May 8, 10:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
MSZ001>082-090400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE. A SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE TO PRODUCE THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IT APPEARS AS THOUGH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN TYPE OF SEVERE WEATHER ENCOUNTERED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...HOWEVER THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES ALSO EXISTS. CIVIL DEFENSE...HAM AND SPOTTER A&CTIVATION FOR WEATHER WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 12:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 42 min |
| May 8, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 32 min |
| May 8, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds | 43 min |
| May 8, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 53 min |
| May 8, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 53 min |
| May 8, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 54 min |
| May 8, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 42 min |
| May 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 43 min |
| May 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 43 min |
| May 8, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Smith | 47 min |
| May 8, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 44 min |
| May 8, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 48 min |
| May 8, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 44 min |
| May 8, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 54 min |
| May 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Lamar | 51 min |
| May 8, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 52 min |
| May 8, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 43 min |
| May 8, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 34 min |
| May 8, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Concordia | 49 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.