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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Jackson, MS

January 27, 1995Montgomery County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1995, 6:44 PM CST for Montgomery County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 27, 1995, 6:44 PM CST (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1995, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Montgomery County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -217 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 321 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 280045 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC097-280130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
644 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY
 
AT 643 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTOM JUST WEST OF DUCK HILL
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, 3 hours 40 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, 3 hours 39 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, 6:40 PM CST, 4 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
640 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995

TIME (CST)     LOCATION               REPORT

436 PM CST  BOLIVAR CO       NUNEROUS REPORTS OF NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE
                             HAIL AT BENOIT AND CLEVELAND. BY BOLIVAR
                             S.O.

502 PM CST  SUNFLOWER CO     QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND WINDS GREATER THAN
                             50 MPH AT PARCHMAN. BY SUNFLOWER C.D.

510 PM CST  TALLAHATCHIE CO  GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL NEAR CHARLESTON.  BY
                             S.O.

629 PM CST  GREENWOOD CO     GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN GREENWOOD. BY LEFLORE
                             CD.

625 PM CST  WEBSTER          3/4 INCH HAIL ON HIGHWAY 404. BY MS STATE
                             MOBILE HAIL UNIT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 27, 6:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	49 min
Jan 27, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	35 min
Jan 27, 6:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	51 min
Jan 27, 6:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	32 min
Jan 27, 6:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	31 min
Jan 27, 7:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	34 min
Jan 27, 7:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	47 min
Jan 27, 7:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba, Scott	47 min
Jan 27, 8:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	54 min
Jan 27, 8:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	40 min
Jan 27, 10:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	48 min
Jan 27, 10:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	31 min
Jan 27, 10:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	45 min
Jan 27, 11:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	36 min
Jan 27, 11:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	27 min
Jan 27, 11:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	37 min
Jan 27, 11:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	46 min
Jan 28, 12:15 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	30 min
Jan 28, 12:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	58 min
Jan 28, 12:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	66 min
Jan 28, 12:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	52 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.