Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 346, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 4:16 PM CDT for Noxubee County, Oktibbeha County, Winston County, Mississippi. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1995, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1561 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jul 3, 2:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
MSZ043-047>049-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 229 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995 JACKSON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE JACKSON METROPOLITAN AREA FROM THE SOUTH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE MOVING THROUGH THE VICKSBURG AREA BETWEEN NOW AND 3 PM. WEATHER RADAR INDICATES WINDS OF UP TO 50 MPH APPROACHING WARREN... HINDS... MADISON AND RANKIN COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BRING FREQUENT LIGHTNING... HEAVY RAINS... AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
MSZ043-047>049-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 229 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995 JACKSON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE JACKSON METROPOLITAN AREA FROM THE SOUTH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE MOVING THROUGH THE VICKSBURG AREA BETWEEN NOW AND 3 PM. WEATHER RADAR INDICATES WINDS OF UP TO 50 MPH APPROACHING WARREN... HINDS... MADISON AND RANKIN COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BRING FREQUENT LIGHTNING... HEAVY RAINS... AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Yazoo | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse, Richland | 68 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1995Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.