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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Jackson, MS

May 18, 1995Bolivar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 7:49 AM CDT for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 18, 1995, 7:49 AM CDT (12:49 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT
In force
41 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, 0.8 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 1995-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2951 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
2951 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.0
Supercell composite
7.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne, Warren42 min
May 18, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WarningJANClaiborne45 min
May 18, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WarningJANCopiah50 min
May 18, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds49 min
May 18, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin41 min
May 18, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper43 min
May 18, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANScott40 min
May 18, 5:23 PM CDTTornado WarningJANCopiah37 min
May 18, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningJANLauderdale46 min
May 18, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningJANRankin, Simpson44 min
May 18, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSmith42 min
May 18, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper43 min
May 18, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin45 min
May 18, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANTensas40 min
May 18, 6:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAshley28 min

Nearby

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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.