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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Jackson, MS

February 16, 1995Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 1995, 8:36 PM CST for Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 16, 1995, 8:36 PM CST (02:36 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 1995, 9:45 PM CST
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Catahoula Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 483 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KBTR 170230 RRA
SVRBTR
LAC025-170345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BATON ROUGE LA
836 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BATON ROUGE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA
 
   ...CATAHOULA PARISH
 
AT 830 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WALTERS MOVING
TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, Feb 16, 6:52 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
650 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995

TIME (CST)     LOCATION               REPORT

625 PM CST     OAK RIDGE          GENERALL PUBLIC REPORTED DIME SIZE
               WARREN CO          HAIL IN OAK RIDGE.

Local storm report, Feb 16, 7:28 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
730 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995

TIME (CST)     LOCATION               REPORT

706 PM CST     FLORENCE CITY      RANKIN E.O.C. REPORTED DIME SIZE
               RANKIN CO          HAIL.

708 PM CST     OLD PEARL          GENERAL PUBLIC REPORTED HEN SIZE
               SIMPSON CO         HAIL.

716 PM CST     2 MILES SOUTH OF   RANKIN E.O.C. REPORTED GOLF BALL
               FLORENCE           SIZE HAIL.
               RANKIN CO

Local storm report, Feb 16, 7:30 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
730 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995

TIME (CST)     LOCATION               REPORT

706 PM CST     FLORENCE CITY      RANKIN E.O.C. REPORTED DIME SIZE
               RANKIN CO          HAIL.

708 PM CST     OLD PEARL          GENERAL PUBLIC REPORTED HEN SIZE
               SIMPSON CO         HAIL.

716 PM CST     2 MILES SOUTH OF   RANKIN E.O.C. REPORTED GOLF BALL
               FLORENCE           SIZE HAIL.
               RANKIN CO

Local storm report, Feb 16, 7:40 PM CST, 56 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
740 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995

NEWTON COUNTY SO REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL AT NEWTON MISSISSIPPI
AT 725 PM CST.

Local storm report, Feb 16, 8:21 PM CST, 15 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
821 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995

TIME (CST)     LOCATION               REPORT

810 PM CST     HERMANVILLE        DIME SIZE HAIL FROM HERMANVILLE
               CLAIBORNE CO       FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Local storm report, Feb 16, 8:22 PM CST, 14 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
821 PM CST THU FEB 16 1995

TIME (CST)     LOCATION               REPORT

810 PM CST     HERMANVILLE        DIME SIZE HAIL FROM HERMANVILLE
               CLAIBORNE CO       FIRE DEPARTMENT.

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.