Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 441, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 12:55 PM CDT for Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 1995, 12:55 PM CDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1995, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 12.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 271756 RRA SVRJAN MSC151-271830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1255 PM CDT FRI OCT 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 1255 PM CDT... JACKSON RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF HOLLANDALE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. ON ITS PRESENT COURSE... THIS STORM WOULD MOVE JUST NORTH OF HOLLANDALE WITHIN 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. <
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
Special weather statement, Oct 27, 10:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
MSZ001>082-280400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CDT FRI OCT 27 1995 THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOW OCCURRING AND WILL BE DEVELOPING ACROSS ALL BUT EXTREME NORTH MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AHEAD OF AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... AND POSSIBLE EVEN A TORNADO. ACTIVATION BY CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTORS...HAM RADIO COORDINATORS AND SPOTTER NETWORKS WILL LIKELY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Special weather statement, Oct 27, 10:05 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
MSZ001>082-280400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CDT FRI OCT 27 1995 THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOW OCCURRING AND WILL BE DEVELOPING ACROSS ALL BUT EXTREME NORTH MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AHEAD OF AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL... AND POSSIBLE EVEN A TORNADO. ACTIVATION BY CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTORS...HAM RADIO COORDINATORS AND SPOTTER NETWORKS WILL LIKELY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 49 min |
| Oct 27, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 38 min |
| Oct 27, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 49 min |
| Oct 27, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 49 min |
| Oct 27, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 40 min |
| Oct 27, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 67 min |
| Oct 27, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 49 min |
| Oct 27, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 49 min |
| Oct 27, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 64 min |
| Oct 27, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 52 min |
| Oct 27, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Oct 27, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton, Scott | 42 min |
| Oct 27, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 52 min |
| Oct 27, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 47 min |
| Oct 27, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 47 min |
| Oct 27, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Warren | 37 min |
| Oct 27, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 45 min |
| Oct 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 48 min |
| Oct 27, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 34 min |
| Oct 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 45 min |
| Oct 27, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 55 min |
| Oct 27, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 57 min |
| Oct 27, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 31 min |
| Oct 27, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 38 min |
| Oct 27, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 50 min |
| Oct 27, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 45 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.