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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Jackson, MS

January 26, 1996Lamar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1996, 4:41 PM CST for Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 26, 1996, 4:41 PM CST (22:41 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 1996, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Lamar County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 26, 5:02 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Oak Grove, MS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 439 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 532 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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, Jan 26, 3:59 PM CST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
346 PM CST FRI JAN  26 1996

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION......

0255 PM    COLUMBIA                  MS   WIND DAMAGE
01/26/96   MARION                         TREES DOWN NEAR THE COLUMBIA
                                          AIRPORT.

0305 PM    5 W LAUREL                MS   .75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96   JONES                          5 MI WEST OF LAUREL ON
                                          HIGHWAY 84. REPORTED BY
                                          LAUREL JONES CD.
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0315 PM    SANDERSVILLE              MS   .50 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96   JONES

0320 PM    BROOKHAVEN                MS   .50 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96   LINCOLN                        AT INTERSTATE 55 AND HIGHWAY
                                          84 SOUTH OF BROOKHAVEN.

0325 PM    MOSELLE                   MS   .50 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96   JONES                          AT INTERSTATE 59 NEAR
                                          MOSELLE.

0330 PM    ELLISVILLE                MS   1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96   JONES                          NEAR THE ELLISVILLE CITY
                                          LIMITS NEAR HIGHWAY 29.

0330 PM    NORTH OF BRANDON          MS   FLOODING
01/26/96   RANKIN                         NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED IN
                                          RANKIN COUNTY... WATER CLOSE
                                          TO ENTERING SOME HOMES OFF
                                          COON HUNTER'S ROAD.

0332 PM    LAUREL                    MS   .88 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96   JONES                          NICKEL TO DIME SIZE HAIL AT
                                          THE EOC BUILDING IN LAUREL.

0344 PM    MELBA                     MS   1.0 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96   JEFFERSON DAVIS                QUARTER TO DIME SIZE HAIL
                                          AT MELBA.

0349PM     LAUREL                    MS   .75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96   JONES                          12 MILES EAST OF LAUREL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 26, 6:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	29 min
Jan 26, 6:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	45 min
Jan 26, 7:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	45 min
Jan 26, 7:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	42 min
Jan 26, 11:51 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	2 hr
Jan 26, 1:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	41 min
Jan 26, 1:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion	50 min
Jan 26, 1:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	47 min
Jan 26, 2:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	115 min
Jan 26, 2:35 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba, Scott	85 min
Jan 26, 2:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	58 min
Jan 26, 2:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	66 min
Jan 26, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	45 min
Jan 26, 3:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington	41 min
Jan 26, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	45 min
Jan 26, 3:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Rankin, Scott	3 hr
Jan 26, 3:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds	3 hr
Jan 26, 4:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	40 min
Jan 26, 4:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	50 min
Jan 26, 5:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	43 min
Jan 26, 8:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula	45 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.