Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 11:38 AM CDT for Kemper County, Noxubee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 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
- Apr 20, 1996, 11:38 AM CDT (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1996, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kemper County, MS, Noxubee County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 12:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | De Kalb, 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1706 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 12.4
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 20, 9:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
923 AM CDT SAT APR 20 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0845 AM 2 S CARROLLTON MS UNCONFIRMED TORNADO
04/20/96 CARROLL
TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN AT ROUTE 35 AND
US 82.Local storm report, Apr 20, 9:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
957 AM CDT SAT APR 20 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 AM 5 S CARROLLTON MS TORNADO
04/20/96 CARROLL *** 1 DEAD ***
TREE FELL ON TRAILER ALONG
HWY 17.
0720 AM 8 NW CLEVELAND MS .88 INCH HAIL
04/20/96 BOLIVAR NO TSTM CELL IN THE
AREA...ONLY RAIN SHWR.
0755 AM GREENWOOD MS .88 INCH HAIL
04/20/96 LEFLORE HAIL ON NORTH SIDE OF
TOWN.Special weather statement, Apr 20, 11:02 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
MSZ001>082-210400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1101 AM CDT SAT APR 20 1996 ...RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A COLD FRONT THIS MORNING WAS LOCATED ACROSS EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST HAS FIRED UP STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSPPI. TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT...THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. THE FRONT WILL BECOME STATIONARY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH MORE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO THE SOUTH OF IT ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOS. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...HAM RADIO AND SPOTTER PERSONNEL WILL BE REQUIRED ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 7:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 7:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 52 min |
| Apr 20, 7:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 8:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 9:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 28 min |
| Apr 20, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower | 30 min |
| Apr 20, 10:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 10:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 11:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 25 min |
| Apr 20, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 65 min |
| Apr 20, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 67 min |
| Apr 20, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower | 69 min |
| Apr 20, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Washington | 67 min |
| Apr 20, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Winston | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 46 min |
| Apr 20, 6:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 58 min |
| Apr 20, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 57 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.