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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Jackson, MS

January 27, 1995Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1995, 5:34 PM CST for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 27, 1995, 5:34 PM CST (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1995, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Tallahatchie County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 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 272339 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC135-280000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
534 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY
 
AT 535 PM CST JACKSON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
LOCATED NEAR 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHARLESTON AND MOVING TO THE EAST
NORTH EAST AT ABOUT 50 MPH. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL FROM THESE STORMS AND THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE MORE LARGE
HAIL.
 
 
IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.  DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
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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

Local storm report, Jan 27, 3:04 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
305 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995

TIME (CST)     LOCATION               REPORT

240 PM CST  WAYSIDE          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND
            WASHINGTON CO

252 PM CST  STONEVILLE       PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT THE AWSC OFFICE
            WASHINGTON CO

245 PM CST  GREENVILLE       MARBLE TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT TV STATION
            WASHINGTON CO

Local storm report, Jan 27, 3:05 PM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
305 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995

TIME (CST)     LOCATION               REPORT

240 PM CST  WAYSIDE          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND
            WASHINGTON CO

252 PM CST  STONEVILLE       PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT THE AWSC OFFICE
            WASHINGTON CO

245 PM CST  GREENVILLE       MARBLE TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT TV STATION
            WASHINGTON CO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 27, 2:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	65 min
Jan 27, 2:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	56 min
Jan 27, 4:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	54 min
Jan 27, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	52 min
Jan 27, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tallahatchie	35 min
Jan 27, 5:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	50 min
Jan 27, 5:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yalobusha	51 min
Jan 27, 5:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	46 min
Jan 27, 5:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore	52 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.