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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Jackson, MS

June 11, 1995Smith County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT for Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Smith County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 286 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 949 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
949 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jun 11, 6:25 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
MSZ010>013-018>020-025-034-035-040>043-047>049-053-054-059>062-068-
069-120025-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
625 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 618 CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF
NORTHWEST-WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 618...ORIGINALLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM
THIS SUNDAY EVENING HAS BEEN CANCELLED WEST OF THE FOLLOWING LINE...

OXFORD-CHARLESTON-LEXINGTON-CANTON-BRANDON-GEORGETOWN-BROOKHAVEN-
LIBERTY LINE.

CITIES SUCH AS GREENEVILLE-VICKSBURG-JACKSON-NATCHEZ-MEADVILLE AND
LIBERTY ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE WATCH.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED GREATLY ALONG AND WEST OF
THIS LINE TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED IN THE CLEARED AREA
FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR
ANY ADDITIONAL WEATHER UPDATES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne, Copiah, Hinds46 min
Jun 11, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo44 min
Jun 11, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper52 min
Jun 10, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChicot33 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.