Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1995, 12:49 PM CST for Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1995, 12:49 PM CST (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1995, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jones County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 853 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEI 061850 RRA SVRMEI MSC067-061945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1249 PM CST MON MAR 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...JONES COUNTY AT 1247 RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAUREL MISSISSIPPI...JUST NORTHWEST OF MOSELLE MISSISSIPPI... MOVING NORTH AT 25 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
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 9:44 AM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
MSZ001>082-070400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 945 AM CST MON MAR 6 1995 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON... ...CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS FOR NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI THIS EVENING...AND WEST OF A COLUMBUS AND POPLARVILLE LINE LATE TONIGHT... AN EXTREMELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE MAGNOLIA STATE TODAY. A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHEAST FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS...COMBINED WITH UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES FROM THE SOUTHWEST U.S. AND SOUTHERN TEXAS WILL SERVE TO PROVIDE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN MISSISSIPPI. AT THIS TIME...THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL INCLUDE PARTS OF NORTHWEST...THEN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS EVENING...WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE INCLUDED LATE TONIGHT AND INTO EARLY TUESDAY. . THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL...BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADIC ACTIVITY IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. HEAVY RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IF THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO PASS OVER THE SAME AREA. A LESSER CHANCE OF ISOLATED STRONG...POTENTIAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...AS MORE SUNSHINE IS EXPECTED TO DESTABLIZE THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THAT AREA. ACTIVATION OF CIVIL DEFENSE COORDINATORS...HAM AND SPOTTER NETWORKS WILL LI&KELY BE REQUESTED FOR LATE TONIGHT...AND POSSIBLY INTO EARLY TUESDAY.
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 9:45 AM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
MSZ001>082-070400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 945 AM CST MON MAR 6 1995 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON... ...CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS FOR NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI THIS EVENING...AND WEST OF A COLUMBUS AND POPLARVILLE LINE LATE TONIGHT... AN EXTREMELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE MAGNOLIA STATE TODAY. A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHEAST FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS...COMBINED WITH UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES FROM THE SOUTHWEST U.S. AND SOUTHERN TEXAS WILL SERVE TO PROVIDE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN MISSISSIPPI. AT THIS TIME...THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL INCLUDE PARTS OF NORTHWEST...THEN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS EVENING...WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE INCLUDED LATE TONIGHT AND INTO EARLY TUESDAY. . THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL...BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADIC ACTIVITY IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. HEAVY RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IF THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO PASS OVER THE SAME AREA. A LESSER CHANCE OF ISOLATED STRONG...POTENTIAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...AS MORE SUNSHINE IS EXPECTED TO DESTABLIZE THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THAT AREA. ACTIVATION OF CIVIL DEFENSE COORDINATORS...HAM AND SPOTTER NETWORKS WILL LIKELY BE REQUESTED FOR LATE TONIGHT...AND POSSIBLY INTO EARLY TUESDAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 12:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 1:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 55 min |
| Mar 6, 1:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Smith | 32 min |
| Mar 6, 1:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 27 min |
| Mar 6, 1:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 48 min |
| Mar 6, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 43 min |
| Mar 6, 1:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 2:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 68 min |
| Mar 6, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 61 min |
| Mar 6, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 40 min |
| Mar 6, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 65 min |
| Mar 6, 2:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 42 min |
| Mar 6, 3:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 51 min |
| Mar 6, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 64 min |
| Mar 6, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 59 min |
| Mar 6, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 43 min |
| Mar 6, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 41 min |
| Mar 6, 4:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 4:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Mar 6, 4:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 43 min |
| Mar 6, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 37 min |
| Mar 6, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys | 28 min |
| Mar 6, 5:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 36 min |
| Mar 6, 5:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 46 min |
| Mar 6, 5:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 41 min |
| Mar 6, 5:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 54 min |
| Mar 6, 5:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 47 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.