Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Jackson, MS
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.
- 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
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, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 11:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Sunflower, Washington | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Calhoun | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 5:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 44 min |
| Feb 16, 5:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 66 min |
| Feb 16, 7:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Calhoun, Grenada | 30 min |
| Feb 16, 9:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 25 min |
| Feb 16, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.