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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Jackson, MS

May 8, 1995Lawrence County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 3:07 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Mississippi. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 1995, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Lawrence County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 082009
SVRJAN
MSC077-082100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
307 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 307 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO
WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING
THROUGH MONTICELLO BY 320 PM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN
CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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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 56 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, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	31 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, 3:21 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.