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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 289, NWS Jackson, MS

May 18, 1995Tensas Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 3:50 PM CDT for Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Tensas Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 698 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 335 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.3

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The text

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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 18, 10:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 12:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1215 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO. 435...ISSUED EARLIER TODAY FOR PARTS OF
WESTERN AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI...HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS THE STATE BUT
NO ACTIVITY IS NEAR SEVERE LIMITS AT THIS TIME. THUNDERSTORMS WILL
INCREASE IN INTENSITY AND COVERAGE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES CLOSER TO THE STATE. PLEASE STAY
TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AS THIS SITUATION DEVELOPS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 7:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	41 min
May 18, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Warren	42 min
May 18, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne	45 min
May 18, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah	50 min
May 18, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	49 min
May 18, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	41 min
May 18, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	43 min
May 18, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	40 min
May 18, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah	37 min
May 18, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	46 min
May 18, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson	44 min
May 18, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	42 min
May 18, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	43 min
May 18, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	45 min
May 18, 6:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	28 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.