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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Jackson, MS

May 8, 1995Madison County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 3:47 PM CDT for Madison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 1995, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 35 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 082049
SVRJAN
MSC089-121-127-082130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
347 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY...RANKIN COUNTY...SIMPSON COUNTY
 
AT 346 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM WEST JACKSON TO FLORENCE TO PINOLA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN
HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE MADISON...BRANDON...AND
MENDENHALL AREAS BY 410 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, 5 hours 36 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.

Local storm report, May 8, 3:33 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
330 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995

TIME (CDT)    LOCATION           REPORT

325 PM        RAYMOND            SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
              HINDS C^O.          HIND CO. EOC

Local storm report, May 8, 3:38 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
337 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995

TIME (CDT)    LOCATION           REPORT

335 PM        3 S CLINTON        POSSIBLE TORNADO, DESTROYED MOBILE HOME
      n        HINDS CO.          HAMS

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, 3:07 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, 3:58 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

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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.