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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 384, NWS Jackson, MS

July 26, 1995Kemper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 5:24 PM CDT for Kemper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 1995, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Kemper County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 262227 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC069-262330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
524 PM CDT WED JUL 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...NORTH CENTRAL KEMPER COUNTY
 
AT 525 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN JACKSON
INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN PROGRESS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF DE KALB
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
 
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, Jul 26, 4:45 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
445 PM CDT WED JUL 26 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION......

1215 PM    STARKVILLE               MS    TREES DOWN ON MSU CAMPUS WITH
07/26/95   OKTIBBEHA COUNTY               60 MPH WIND.

125 PM     MACON                    MS    TREES DOWN. QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
07/26/95   NOXUBEE COUNTY                 FROM EOC.

1230 PM    BAY SPRINGS              MS    TREE DOWN DOWNTOWN BAY SPRINGS.
07/26/95   JASPER COUNTY                  FROM BAY SPRINGS P.D.

335 PM     5 MILES NE OF LOUISVILLE MS    DIME SIZE HAIL. TREES AND POWER
07/26/95   WINSTON COUNTY                 LINES DOWN. WINSTON CD.

Local storm report, Jul 26, 4:47 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
445 PM CDT WED JUL 26 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION......

1215 PM    STARKVILLE               MS    TREES DOWN ON MSU CAMPUS WITH
07/26/95   OKTIBBEHA COUNTY               60 MPH WIND.

125 PM     MACON                    MS    TREES DOWN. QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
07/26/95   NOXUBEE COUNTY                 FROM EOC.

1230 PM    BAY SPRINGS              MS    TREE DOWN DOWNTOWN BAY SPRINGS.
07/26/95   JASPER COUNTY                  FROM BAY SPRINGS P.D.

335 PM     5 MILES NE OF LOUISVILLE MS    DIME SIZE HAIL. TREES AND POWER
07/26/95   WINSTON COUNTY        d         LINES DOWN. WINSTON CD.

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, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	35 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, 5:56 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.