Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 4:18 PM CDT for Ashley County, Arkansas. It was in force for 57 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 20, 1996, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashley County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 11:02 AM CDT, 5 hours 16 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.
Local storm report, Apr 20, 2:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
210 PM CDT SAT APR 20 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1005 AM 1 SE HOLLANDALE MS 1 INCH HAIL
04/20/96 WASHINGTON
1025 AM 10 N CANTON MS .88 INCH HAIL
04/20/96 MADISON
1100 AM THOMASTOWN MS .75 INCH HAIL
04/20/96 LEAKE
1100 AM CARTH6AGE MS .75 INCH HAIL
04/20/96 LEAKEThe 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, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 52 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.