Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 4:43 PM CDT for Chicot County, Arkansas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chicot County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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
Local storm report, May 15, 4:18 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
417 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995
THE FOLLOWING IS INFORMATION FOR TUESDAY MAY 15 1995
TIME (CDT) LOCATION REPORT
315 PM NEAR SHAW IN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERING THE
SOUTHERN BOLIVAR GROUND. REPORTED BY LOCAL TV
COUNTY MS STATION.
330 PM NORTHERN GREENVILLE QUARTER SIZE HAIL. REPORTED AT
CITY LIMITS IN LOCAL TV STATION IN GREENVILLE.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
MS
336 PM GREENVILLE IN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
WASHINGTON COUNTY MS AT LOCAL TELEVISION STATION IN
GREENVILLE.
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345 PM TO NORTHERN CARROLLTON NICKEL TO GOLFBALL SIZE
400 PM IN CARROLL COUNTY MS HAIL REPORTED BY SHERRIFFS
DEPUTIES ALONG MS HWY 35
f NORTH OF CARROLLTON AS WELL
AS AT THE SHERRIFFS OFFICE IN
CARROLLTON.Local storm report, May 15, 4:21 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TRANSMIT DATE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
417 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1995
THE FOLLOWING IS INFORMATION FOR TUESDAY MAY 15 1995
TIME (CDT) LOCATION REPORT
315 PM NEAR SHAW IN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERING THE
SOUTHERN BOLIVAR GROUND. REPORTED BY LOCAL TV
COUNTY MS STATION.
330 PM NORTHERN GREENVILLE QUARTER SIZE HAIL. REPORTED AT
CITY LIMITS IN LOCAL TV STATION IN GREENVILLE.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
MS
336 PM GREENVILLE IN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
WASHINGTON COUNTY MS AT LOCAL TELEVISION STATION IN
GREENVILLE.
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345 PM TO NORTHERN CARROLLTON NICKEL TO GOLFBALL SIZE
400 PM IN CARROLL COUNTY MS HAIL REPORTED BY SHERRIFFS
DEPUTIES ALOtNG MS HWY 35
NORTH OF CARROLLTON AS WELL
AS AT THE SHERRIFFS OFFICE IN
CARROLLTON.Local storm report, May 15, 4:22 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TRANSMIT DATE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
417 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1995
THE FOLLOWING IS INFORMATION FOR MONDAY MAY 15 1995
TIME (CDT) LOCATION REPORT
315 PM NEAR SHAW IN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERING THE
SOUTHERN BOLIVAR GROUND. REPORTED BY LOCAL TV
COUNTY MS STATION.
330 PM NORTHERN GREENVILLE QUARTER SIZE HAIL. REPORTED AT
CITY LIMITS IN LOCAL TV STATION IN GREENVILLE.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
MS
336 PM GREENVILLE IN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
WASHINGTON COUNTY MS AT LOCAL TELEVISION STATION IN
GREENVILLE.
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345 PM TO NORTHERN CARROLLTON NICKEL TO GOLFBALL SIZE
400 PM IN CARROLL COUNTY MS HAIL REPORTED BY SHERRIFFS
DEPUTIES ALON~G MS HWY 35
NORTH OF CARROLLTON AS WELL
AS AT THE SHERRIFFS OFFICE IN
CARROLLTON.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 29 min |
| May 15, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 52 min |
| May 15, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 49 min |
| May 15, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 44 min |
| May 15, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 44 min |
| May 15, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Leflore, Montgomery | 45 min |
| May 15, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 50 min |
| May 15, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 52 min |
| May 15, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes | 49 min |
| May 15, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Winston | 42 min |
| May 15, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 68 min |
| May 15, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 62 min |
| May 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 35 min |
| May 15, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 51 min |
| May 15, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 53 min |
| May 15, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, West Carroll | 45 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.