Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 478, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 3:04 AM CST for 4 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 11, 1995, 3:04 AM CST (09:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 1995, 3:45 AM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Claiborne County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Madison County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 3:10 AM CST | Tornado F3 | Madison, MS | The tornado began at 0310 five miles west-southwest of Flora and traveled in an easterly direction and lifted five miles southwest of Canton at around 0330. Three mobile homes were totally destroyed. A two story house was almost totally destroyed and two of th |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 433 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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
Special weather statement, Nov 10, 9:50 PM CST, 5 hours 14 minutes before
MSZ001>082-111400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 950 PM CST FRI NOV 10 1995 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE WITH COLD FRONT LATE... A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL SEND IT/S ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT RACING SOUTHEASTWARD FROM ARKANSAS LATE TONIGHT. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AS IT MOVES INTO NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE FEEDING MOISTURE INTO THE AREA BUT THE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN MARGINALLY UNSTABLE. THE FRONT SHOULD CROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI EARLY IN THE MORNING REACHING ABOUT A TUPELO TO MCCOMB LINE AT 800 AM. THERE IS A SLIGHT TO MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE FRONT AND WINDS MAY GUST TO BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MILES AN HOUR AS THE FRONT PASSES. THIS AIRMASS WILL BRING FALLING TEMPERATURES MOST OF SATURDAY. ACTIVATION OF CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTORS...HAM RADIO COORDINATORS AND SPOTTER NETWORKS WILL BE NECESSARY AS TORNADO WATCH 1059 WAS SET TO GO INTO EFFECT AT 1000 PM FOR 8 COUNTIES IN OUR NORTHWEST CORNER. ADDITIONAL WATCHES CAN BE EXPECTED POSSIBLY BETWEEN 200 AND 400 AM FOR OTHER SECTIONS OF THE MAGNOLIA STATE.
Special weather statement, Nov 10, 9:52 PM CST, 5 hours 12 minutes before
MSZ001>082-111400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 950 PM CST FRI NOV 10 1995 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE WITH COLD FRONT LATE... A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL SEND IT/S ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT RACING SOUTHEASTWARD FROM ARKANSAS LATE TONIGHT. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AS IT MOVES INTO NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE FEEDING MOISTURE INTO THE AREA BUT THE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN MARGINALLY UNSTABLE. THE FRONT SHOULD CROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI EARLY IN THE MORNING REACHING ABOUT A TUPELO TO MCCOMB LINE AT 800 AM. THERE IS A SLIGHT TO MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE FRONT AND WINDS MAY GUST TO BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MILES AN HOUR AS THE FRONT PASSES. THIS AIRMASS WILL BRING FALLING TEMPERATURES MOST OF SATURDAY. ACTIVATION OF CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTORS...HAM RADIO COORDINATORS AND SPOTTER NETWORKS WILL BE NECESSARY AS TORNADO WATCH 1059 WAS SET TO GO INTO EFFECT AT 1000 PM FOR 8 COUNTIES IN OUR NORTHWEST CORNER. ADDITIONAL WATCHES CAN BE EXPECTED POSSIBLY BETWEEN 200 AND 400 AM FOR OTHER SECTIONS OF THE MAGNOLIA STATE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 1:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 42 min |
| Nov 11, 1:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 2:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey | 30 min |
| Nov 11, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes, Leflore, Yazoo | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin, Jefferson | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Smith | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba, Winston | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 3:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 54 min |
| Nov 11, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba, Newton, Scott, Winston | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jasper, Smith | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 4:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington | 29 min |
| Nov 11, 5:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 5:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones, Lamar | 45 min |
| Nov 11, 5:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 30 min |
| Nov 11, 1:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse, West Carroll | 50 min |
| Nov 11, 1:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison, Richland | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 2:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia, Tensas | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 12:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 51 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.