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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 268, NWS Jackson, MS

May 15, 1995Bolivar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 2:26 PM CDT for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1995, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Bolivar County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1995-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 818 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1995-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
818 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
912 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.3

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANGrenada29 min
May 15, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMontgomery52 min
May 15, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll44 min
May 15, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWashington44 min
May 15, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll, Leflore, Montgomery45 min
May 15, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWashington50 min
May 15, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAttala52 min
May 15, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll, Holmes49 min
May 15, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNeshoba, Winston42 min
May 15, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANBolivar68 min
May 15, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANIssaquena62 min
May 15, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANKemper35 min
May 15, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningJANBolivar51 min
May 15, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANFranklin53 min
May 15, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANEast Carroll, West Carroll45 min
May 15, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChicot47 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.