Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1996, 12:17 AM CST for Catahoula Parish, Franklin Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 1996, 12:17 AM CST (06:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 1996, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catahoula Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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
Local storm report, Mar 30, 10:35 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
1035 PM CST SAT MAR 30 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0750 PM 2 W CROSSETT AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 ASHLEY
0830 PM 5 NE BASTROP LA TORNADO
03/30/96 MOREHOUSE PSBL TORNADO... ROOFS OFF
HOMES... POWERLINES DOWN
0830 PM KILBOURNE LA .88 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 WEST CARROLL
0840 PM GOODWILL LA .75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 WEST CARROLL
0950 PM 2 SW BASTROP LA .75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 MOREHOUSE
1010 PM 2 NW CLEVELAND MS .88 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 BOLIVAR
1015 PM HOLLY RIDGE LA TORNADO
03/30/96 RICHLAND TORNADO REPORTEDLY TOUCHED
DOWN BRIEFLY... NO DAMAGE
KNOWN ATTM
1025 PM 5 W HAMBURG AR 2.75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 ASHLEY
AGLocal storm report, Mar 30, 10:36 PM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
1035 PM CST SAT MAR 30 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0750 PM 2 W CROSSETT AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 ASHLEY
0830 PM 5 NE BASTROP LA TORNADO
03/30/96 MOREHOUSE PSBL TORNADO... ROOFS OFF
HOMES... POWERLINES DOWN
0830 PM KILBOURNE LA .88 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 WEST CARROLL
0840 PM GOODWILL LA .75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 WEST CARROLL
0950 PM 2 SW BASTROP LA .75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 MOREHOUSE
1010 PM 2 NW CLEVELAND MS .88 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 BOLIVAR
1015 PM HOLLY RIDGE LA TORNADO
03/30/96 RICHLAND TORNADO REPORTEDLY TOUCHED
DOWN BRIEFLY... NO DAMAGE
KNOWN ATTM
1025 PM 5 W HAMBURG AR 2.75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 ASHLEY
AGLocal storm report, Mar 31, 12:16 AM CST, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
1217 AM CST SUN MAR 31 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1054 PM BENTON MS 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 YAZOO
1104 PM VICKSBURG MS .75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 WARREN
1140 PM MADISON CAMPBELL ARPT MS .88 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 MADISON
1203 AM 3 N B8RANDON MS 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/31/96 RANKIN
1216 AM 4 S JACKSON MS 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/31/96 HINDSLocal storm report, Mar 31, 12:17 AM CST, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
1217 AM CST SUN MAR 31 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1054 PM BENTON MS 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 YAZOO
1104 PM VICKSBURG MS .75 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 WARREN
1140 PM MADISON CAMPBELL ARPT MS .88 INCH HAIL
03/30/96 MADISON
1203 AM 3 N BRANDON MS 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/31/96 RANKIN
1216 AM 4 S JACKSON MS 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/31/96 HINDSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 67 min |
| Mar 30, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 9:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Warren | 68 min |
| Mar 30, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 10:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 10:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 11:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 11:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 11:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 12:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 54 min |
| Mar 31, 12:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 51 min |
| Mar 31, 12:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 54 min |
| Mar 31, 12:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 54 min |
| Mar 31, 1:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 1:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 1:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 51 min |
| Mar 31, 1:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 53 min |
| Mar 31, 1:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 3:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 3:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 4:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 5:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 6:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 7:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 65 min |
| Mar 30, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, West Carroll | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Richland | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 8:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 65 min |
| Mar 30, 8:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 65 min |
| Mar 30, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison, Richland | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 9:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison, Richland | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 10:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 10:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse, West Carroll | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 11:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 12:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 9:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 10:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 56 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.