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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 381, NWS Jackson, MS

July 26, 1995Forrest County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 1:55 PM CDT for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 1995, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1995, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Forrest County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 2464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

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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 26, 10:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 10:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	48 min
Jul 26, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	41 min
Jul 26, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	40 min
Jul 26, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha, Winston	59 min
Jul 26, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	58 min
Jul 26, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	66 min
Jul 26, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	64 min
Jul 26, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.