Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 6:29 PM CDT for Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holmes County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 2293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 042332 RRA SVRJAN MSC051-050015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 629 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...WESTERN HOLMES COUNTY JACKSON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THORNTON AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDESTORM EARLIER HAD SOME INDICATION OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO AND ANYONE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE SHELTER QUICKLY. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS NEAR THORNTON BY 635 PM CDT THIPS EVENING AND TCHULA BY 645 PM. 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. <
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 4, 4:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
MSZ042>066-072-073-042200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 403 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 702 CANCELLED FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT NORTH OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...WARREN...YAZOO...MADISON...LEAKE ...NESHOBA AND KEMPER. THESE COUNTIES AND ALL COUNTIES TO THE SOUTH IN MISSISSIPPI ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THIS AFTERNOON. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED NORTH INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN OVER NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA WHICH COULD MOVE INTO THE DELTA COUNTIES OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BY 5 PM THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
MSZ042>066-072-073-042200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 403 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 702 CANCELLED FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT NORTH OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...WARREN...YAZOO...MADISON...LEAKE ...NESHOBA AND KEMPER. THESE COUNTIES AND ALL COUNTIES TO THE SOUTH IN MISSISSIPPI ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THIS AFTERNOON. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED NORTH INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN OVER NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA WHICH COULD MOVE INTO THE DELTA COUNTIES OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BY 5 PM THIS EVENIN6G.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey, Yazoo | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 29 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.