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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 462, NWS Jackson, MS

October 27, 1995Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 8:31 PM CDT for Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 1995, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Forrest County, MS, Lamar County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -416 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 4 hours 25 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.