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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 458, NWS Jackson, MS

October 27, 1995Copiah County, Simpson County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 5:18 PM CDT for Copiah County, Simpson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 1995, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Copiah County, MS, Simpson County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 49 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 272219 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC029-127-272315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
518 PM CDT FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...COPIAH COUNTY...SIMPSON COUNTY
 
AT 518 PM CDT JACKSON RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM HERMANVILLE TO CRYSTAL SPRINGS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. ANOTHER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
HAZLEHURST. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE
STORMS. THEY ARE MOVING INTO SIMPSON COUNTY WITHIN THE0 NEXT 30 MINUTES.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN
CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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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, Oct 27, 4:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
406 PM CDT FRI OCT 27 1995

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

0315 PM    BROOKHAVEN                MS   1.75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
10/27/95   LINCOLN

0329 PM    BROOKHAVEN                MS   2.75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
10/27/95   LINCOLN                        MHP REPORTS HAIL COVERED
                                          INTERSTATE 55

0335 PM    7 NW BROOKHAVEN           MS   TORNADO
10/27/95   LINCOLN                        CD REPORTS TORNADO ON GROUND
                                          NEAR NEWSIGHT

0340 PM    15 S LAUREL               MS   1.75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
10/27/95   JONES                          CD REPORTS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          2 E MOSELLE

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, 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, 5:29 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

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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.