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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Jackson, MS

February 15, 1995Sunflower County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 1995, 10:03 PM CST for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 15, 1995, 10:03 PM CST (04:03 UTC)
Expired
Feb 15, 1995, 10:30 PM CST
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Sunflower County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-02-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-02-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Feb 15, 7:37 PM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
MSZ038-039-045-046-051-052-057-058-066-067-ALZ051-030-160345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
737 PM CST WED FEB 15 1995

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 66 WHICH INCLUDES SUMTER AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES
IN EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

AT 740 PM CST MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A 30 MILE WIDE AREA OF
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR RALEIGH MISSISSIPPI TO 15
MILES EAST OF CENTERVILLE ALABAMA.

ELSEWHERE A 10 MILE WIDE AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
HAMILTON ALABAMA.

ALL THUNDRSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 7:42 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
MSZ038-039-045-046-051-052-057-058-066-067-ALZ051-030-160345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
737 PM CST WED FEB 15 1995

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 66 WHICH INCLUDES SUMTER AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES
IN EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

AT 740 PM CST MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A 30 MILE WIDE AREA OF
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR RALEIGH MISSISSIPPI TO 15
MILES EAST OF CENTERVILLE ALABAMA.

ELSEWHERE A 10 MILE WIDE AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
HAMILTON ALABAMA.

ALL THUNDRSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 11:28 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANSunflower, Washington4 hr
Feb 16, 1:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCalhoun29 min
Feb 16, 5:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChoctaw44 min
Feb 16, 5:09 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWinston66 min
Feb 16, 7:15 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCalhoun, Grenada30 min
Feb 16, 9:46 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHolmes29 min
Feb 16, 2:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin25 min
Feb 16, 2:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNoxubee62 min

Nearby

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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.