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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 429, NWS Jackson, MS

August 20, 1995Kemper County, Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1995, 5:43 PM CDT for Kemper County, Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 20, 1995, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired: Aug 20, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 2612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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, Aug 20, 4:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
435 PM CDT SUN AUG 20 1995

CLARKE COUNTY...10 MILES EAST OF QUITMAN  TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
                ON HY 511.                REPORTED BY POWER COMPANY.
                                          TIME ABOUT 330 PM CDT.

LINCOLN COUNTY...NEAR EAST LINCOLN        TREES DOWN AND ROOF DAMAGE
                 COMMUNITY.               TO SOME CHICKEN HOUSES.
                                          REPORT FROM LINCOLN COUNTY
                                          S.O. TIME ABOUT 245 PM CDT.

Local storm report, Aug 20, 4:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
435 PM CDT SUN AUG 20 1995

CLARKE COUNTY...10 MILES EAST OF QUITMAN  TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
                ON HY 511.                REPORTED BY POWER COMPANY.
                                          TIME ABOUT 330 PM CDT.

LINCOLN COUNTY...NEAR EAST LINCOLN        TREES DOWN AND ROOF DAMAGE
                 COMMUNITY.               TO SOME CHICKEN HOUSES.
                                          REPORT FROM LINCOLN COUNTY
                                          S.O. TIME ABOUT 245 PM CDT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 20, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	31 min
Aug 20, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	46 min
Aug 20, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	30 min
Aug 20, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	66 min
Aug 20, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	43 min
Aug 20, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	28 min
Aug 20, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	42 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.