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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Jackson, MS

May 8, 1995Claiborne County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 2:43 PM CDT for Claiborne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1995, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Claiborne County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 87 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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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, 4 hours 32 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 12:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAdams42 min
May 8, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAdams31 min
May 8, 2:47 PM CDTTornado WarningJANClaiborne, Hinds43 min
May 8, 2:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLincoln53 min
May 8, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLawrence53 min
May 8, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds54 min
May 8, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJefferson Davis42 min
May 8, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin, Simpson43 min
May 8, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison43 min
May 8, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCovington, Smith47 min
May 8, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningJANSimpson44 min
May 8, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANScott48 min
May 8, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WarningJANScott44 min
May 8, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper, Jones54 min
May 8, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCovington, Lamar51 min
May 8, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClarke52 min
May 8, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLauderdale43 min
May 8, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMarion34 min
May 8, 11:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANConcordia49 min

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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.