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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Jackson, MS

January 30, 1996Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 30, 1996, 5:05 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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 30, 1996, 5:05 PM CST (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Jan 30, 1996, 5:45 PM CST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, MS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jan 30, 5:35 PM CSTHail 0.75Meridian, 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 12:00Z on 1996-01-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 194 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 12:00Z on 1996-01-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 218 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
194 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 30, 4:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNewton51 min
Jan 30, 5:27 PM CSTTornado WarningJANLauderdale33 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.