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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 409, NWS Jackson, MS

July 28, 1995Smith County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 6:12 PM CDT for Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 1995, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Smith County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 1948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1202 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 282315 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC129-290000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
612 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...SOUTHERN SMITH COUNTY
 
AT 610 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SIX
MILES NORTHWEST OF MIZE TO TEN MILES NORTHEAST OF TAYLORSVILLE. THEY
WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE
MIZE AND TAYLORSVILLE AREA BY 645 PM.
 
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 28, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
255 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995

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

215 PM     MATHISTON                MS    NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DIME
07/28/95   WEBSTER COUNTY                 SIZE HAIL BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
255 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995

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

215 PM     MATHISTON                MS    NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DIME
07/28/95   WEBSTER COUNTY                 SIZE HAIL BY PUBLIC.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	42 min
Jul 28, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	50 min
Jul 28, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	49 min
Jul 28, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	43 min
Jul 28, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	27 min
Jul 28, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	29 min
Jul 28, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	54 min
Jul 28, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	43 min
Jul 28, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	44 min
Jul 28, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	44 min
Jul 28, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Smith	46 min
Jul 28, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	41 min
Jul 28, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	43 min
Jul 28, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	34 min
Jul 28, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	53 min
Jul 28, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	49 min
Jul 28, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	45 min
Jul 28, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	54 min
Jul 28, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	50 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.