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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 449, NWS Jackson, MS

October 27, 1995Hinds County, Warren County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 2:56 PM CDT for Hinds County, Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 1995, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hinds County, MS, Warren County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 53 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: 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

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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

Special weather statement, Oct 27, 10:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 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, 4 hours 51 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, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	35 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, 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
Oct 26, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	42 min
Oct 27, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	44 min
Oct 27, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia, Tensas	65 min

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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.