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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Jackson, MS

January 27, 1995Humphreys County, Leflore County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1995, 5:53 PM CST for Humphreys County, Leflore County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 27, 1995, 5:53 PM CST (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1995, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Humphreys County, MS, Leflore County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 395 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 422 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 272355 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC083-053-280045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
553 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...LEFLORE COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...HUMPHREYS COUNTY
 
AT 553 PM RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF SWIFTWON TO 4 MILES WEST OF ISOLA MOVING EAST
AT 50 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
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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 49 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 48 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, 5:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tallahatchie	26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.