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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 421, NWS Jackson, MS

July 28, 1995Claiborne County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 8:04 PM CDT for Claiborne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Claiborne County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1995-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 362 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1995-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1107 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1713 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
17.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 290107 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC021-290200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
804 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...CLAIBORNE COUNTY
 
AT 800 PM RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NINE MILES NORTHEAST OF
PORT GIBSON. IT WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL
PASS NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF PORT GIBSON...HERMANVILLE AND PATTISON BY
825 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, 5 hours 9 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, 5 hours 8 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, 7:10 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
710 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995

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

406 PM     NOXAPATER                MS    REPORTS OF QUARTER SIZE
07/28/95   WINSTON COUNTY                 HAIL BY MSU CLIMATE LAB.

410 PM     8W OF CARTHAGE           MS    TREES DOWN ON HWY 25 NE
           LEAKE COUNTY                   OF CARTHAGE.

525 PM     PELAHATCHIE              MS    DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
           RANKIN COUNTY                  BY RANKIN EOC.

515 PM     UNION                    MS    TREES DOWN REPORTED BY
           NEWTON COUNTY                  WSO MERIDIAN.

535-    N. SMITH AND S. SCOTT COUNTIES   MS      DIME SIZE HAIL...
550 PM                                           POWER LINES DOWN AND
                                                 TREES DOWN SEEN BY
                                                 PUBLIC.

520 PM  BRAXTON                                  NICKEL SIZE HAIL
        RANKIN/SIMPSON COUNTY LINE               COVERING GROUND REPRTD
                                                 BY HATTIESBURG MHP.

550 PM  HWY 13 NEAR MENDANHALL                   TREE TOPS DOWN/DIME
        SIMPSON COUNTY                           SIZE HAIL...REPORTED
                                                 BY JACKSON MHP.
Local storm report, Jul 28, 7:11 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
710 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995

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

406 PM     NOXAPATER                MS    REPORTS OF QUARTER SIZE
07/28/95   WINSTON COUNTY                 HAIL BY MSU CLIMATE LAB.

410 PM     8W OF CARTHAGE           MS    TREES DOWN ON HWY 25 NE
           LEAKE COUNTY                   OF CARTHAGE.

525 PM     PELAHATCHIE              MS    DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
           RANKIN COUNTY                  BY RANKIN EOC.

515 PM     UNION                    MS    TREES DOWN REPORTED BY
           NEWTON COUNTY                  WSO MERIDIAN.

535-    N. SMITH AND S. SCOTT COUNTIES   MS      DIME SIZE HAIL...
550 PM                                           POWER LINES DOWN AND
                                                 TREES DOWN SEEN BY
                                                 PUBLIC.

520 PM  BRAXTON                                  NICKEL SIZE HAIL
        RANKIN/SIMPSON COUNTY LINE               COVERING GROUND REPRTD
                                                 BY HATTIESBURG MHP.

550 PM  HWY 13 NEAR MENDANHALL                   TREE TOPS DOWN/DIME
        SIMPSON COUNTY                           SIZE HAIL...REPORTED
                                                 BY JACKSON MHP.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLawrence52 min
Jul 28, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWashington45 min
Jul 28, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo52 min
Jul 28, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah, Jefferson44 min
Jul 28, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWarren42 min
Jul 28, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLincoln38 min
Jul 28, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANIssaquena, Sharkey54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1995Every 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.