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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 433, NWS Jackson, MS

August 20, 1995Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1995, 6:32 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 20, 1995, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Aug 20, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 202335 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC075-210000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
632 PM CDT SUN AUG 20 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 EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY
 
AT 630 PM CDT... JACKSON RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM PHILADELPHIA TO HICKORY TO ENTERPRISE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
THE WESTERN PARTS OF LAUDERDALE COUNTY WILL BE EXPERIENCING STRONG WIND
GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES... AND POSSIBLY
SOME LARGE HAIL DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
 
 
 
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, Aug 20, 4:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 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 56 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, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	47 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, 6:56 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.