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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Jackson, MS

March 31, 1996Lawrence County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1996, 3:30 AM CST for Lawrence County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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, 3:30 AM CST (09:30 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 1996, 4:00 AM CST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Lawrence County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 86 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 250 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 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
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

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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 31, 12:16 AM CST, 3 hours 14 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 B8RANDON               MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
03/31/96   RANKIN

1216 AM    4 S JACKSON               MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
03/31/96   HINDS
Local storm report, Mar 31, 12:17 AM CST, 3 hours 13 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   HINDS
Local storm report, Mar 31, 2:20 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 9:23 PM CSTTornado WarningJANIssaquena67 min
Mar 30, 9:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANBolivar, Washington43 min
Mar 30, 9:52 PM CSTTornado WarningJANWarren68 min
Mar 30, 9:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo49 min
Mar 30, 10:40 PM CSTTornado WarningJANIssaquena, Warren50 min
Mar 30, 10:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo44 min
Mar 30, 11:17 PM CSTTornado WarningJANHinds, Madison43 min
Mar 30, 11:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison36 min
Mar 30, 11:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll33 min
Mar 30, 11:49 PM CSTTornado WarningJANRankin41 min
Mar 31, 12:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds25 min
Mar 31, 12:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANIssaquena, Warren54 min
Mar 31, 12:24 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin51 min
Mar 31, 12:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANScott54 min
Mar 31, 12:51 AM CSTTornado WarningJANSmith54 min
Mar 31, 1:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne, Jefferson41 min
Mar 31, 1:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds, Madison47 min
Mar 31, 1:24 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNewton51 min
Mar 31, 1:37 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper53 min
Mar 31, 1:42 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin63 min
Mar 31, 3:58 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMarion47 min
Mar 31, 4:15 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCovington, Jones45 min
Mar 31, 5:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLamar30 min
Mar 30, 6:56 PM CSTTornado WarningJANMorehouse64 min
Mar 30, 7:55 PM CSTTornado WarningJANMorehouse65 min
Mar 30, 8:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANEast Carroll, West Carroll58 min
Mar 30, 8:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRichland58 min
Mar 30, 8:40 PM CSTTornado WarningJANWest Carroll65 min
Mar 30, 8:55 PM CSTTornado WarningJANEast Carroll65 min
Mar 30, 9:00 PM CSTTornado WarningJANMadison, Richland60 min
Mar 30, 9:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMorehouse51 min
Mar 30, 10:00 PM CSTTornado WarningJANEast Carroll, Madison, Richland45 min
Mar 30, 10:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWest Carroll46 min
Mar 30, 10:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMorehouse49 min
Mar 30, 10:37 PM CSTTornado WarningJANWest Carroll38 min
Mar 30, 11:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMorehouse, West Carroll51 min
Mar 30, 11:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANEast Carroll, Madison48 min
Mar 31, 12:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCatahoula, Franklin43 min
Mar 31, 12:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANTensas50 min
Mar 30, 9:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChicot54 min
Mar 30, 10:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAshley56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.