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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 461, NWS Jackson, MS

October 27, 1995Covington County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT for Covington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Covington County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1124 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 330 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

Local storm report, Oct 27, 4:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 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
Local storm report, Oct 27, 6:05 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 26, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWarren49 min
Oct 27, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWashington35 min
Oct 27, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWarren38 min
Oct 27, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNeshoba49 min
Oct 27, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNewton49 min
Oct 27, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds, Madison40 min
Oct 27, 2:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLauderdale67 min
Oct 27, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANKemper49 min
Oct 27, 2:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison49 min
Oct 27, 2:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds, Warren64 min
Oct 27, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANFranklin, Lincoln52 min
Oct 27, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningJANFranklin, Lincoln49 min
Oct 27, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNewton, Scott42 min
Oct 27, 3:38 PM CDTTornado WarningJANLawrence52 min
Oct 27, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJones47 min
Oct 27, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningJANJefferson Davis47 min
Oct 27, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne, Warren37 min
Oct 27, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah, Hinds45 min
Oct 27, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningJANCovington, Jefferson Davis48 min
Oct 27, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClarke, Lauderdale34 min
Oct 27, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne, Jefferson45 min
Oct 27, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningJANJones55 min
Oct 27, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah, Simpson57 min
Oct 27, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningJANCopiah, Lincoln31 min
Oct 27, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningJANLawrence38 min
Oct 27, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningJANJefferson Davis50 min
Oct 27, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAdams, Jefferson46 min
Oct 26, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison42 min
Oct 27, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANTensas44 min
Oct 27, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCatahoula, Concordia, Tensas65 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.