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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Jackson, MS

April 14, 1996East Carroll Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1996, 7:40 PM CDT for East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 35 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
Apr 14, 1996, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired
Apr 14, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County East Carroll Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 1996-04-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1996-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1201 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Apr 14, 6:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 14, 6:41 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
540 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996

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

0300 PM    JACKSON                   MS   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/96   HINDS                          JUST WEST OF METHODIST
                                          HOSPITAL ON HWY 18
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.

0305 PM    BRANDON                   MS   1 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   RANKIN                         ALSO TREES DOWN.

0320 PM    JACKSON                   MS   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/96   HINDS                          PINE TREES DOWN AND
                                          WINDOWS BLOWN OUT IN
                                          SOUTHWEST JACKSON AND HWY
                                          80.

0430 PM    MERIDIAN                  MS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   LAUDERDALE                     DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.

0445 PM    HOUSE                     MS   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/96   NESHOBA                        TREES DOWN AND STRUCTURES
                                          DAMAGED.

0540 PM    SCOOBA                    MS   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/96   KEMPER                         NUMEROUS TREES DOWN NEAR
                                          SCOOBA ALL ALONG HWY 45
                                          ALONG KEMPER/NOXUBEE
                                          COUNTY LINE.

0544 PM    PETAL                     MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   FORREST                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL ON HWY
                                          42 EAST OF PETAL.

0545 PM    KOSCIUSKO                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/96   ATTALA                         TREES AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWN...NATCHEZ TRACE
                                          CLOSED.
0628 PM       CLEARY                       MS   DIME SIZE
              RANKIN                            HAIL.

0430 PM       MERIDIAN                     MS   NICKEL SIZE
              LAUDERDALE                        HAIL...TREES
                                                DOWN IN NORTH
       T                                         MERIDIAN.
Local storm report, Apr 14, 6:57 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
657 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996

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

0646 PM    JACKSON                   MS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/96   HINDS                          DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED ON
                                          OLD BRANDON ROAD.
Local storm report, Apr 14, 7:29 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
730 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996

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

20300 PM    YAZOO CITY                MS   WIND DAMAGE
04/14/96   YAZOO                          TREES DOWN ON
                                          CARS...DAMAGE TO HOUSES
                                          AND ROOFING TORN.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANIssaquena, Sharkey39 min
Apr 14, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANBolivar, Sunflower46 min
Apr 14, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLincoln38 min
Apr 14, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSunflower31 min
Apr 14, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLawrence54 min
Apr 14, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSunflower30 min
Apr 14, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAdams50 min
Apr 14, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLeflore47 min
Apr 14, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMorehouse45 min
Apr 14, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison54 min
Apr 14, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCatahoula34 min
Apr 14, 9:26 PM CDTTornado WarningJANConcordia34 min
Apr 14, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChicot33 min
Apr 14, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChicot30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.