Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 1996, 12:00 AM CST for Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 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
- Jan 2, 1996, 12:00 AM CST (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 1996, 12:28 AM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Newton County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 020600 RRA SVRJAN MSC075-101-020700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS MIDNIGHT CST TUE JAN 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN NEWTON COUNTY AT 1149 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS JUST SOUTH OF NEWTON MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR MERIDIAN AROUDN 1245 AM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO" RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. <
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, Jan 1, 10:06 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
MSZ047-053-055>067-072>076-078-079-020500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1006 PM CST MON JAN 1 1996 TORNADO WATCH NO. 2 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM MONDAY MORNING. THE WATCH AREA IS NEAR AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WOODVILLE TO MENDENHALL TO QUITMAN. TORNADO WATCH NO. 1...WHICH WAS ISSUED FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...EXPIRED AT 10 PM. HOWEVER...TORNADO WATCH NO. 2 INCLUDES SEVERAL COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE STATE.
Special weather statement, Jan 1, 10:18 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
MSZ047-053-055>067-072>076-078-079-020500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1006 PM CST MON JAN 1 1996 TORNADO WATCH NO. 2 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM MONDAY MORNING. THE WATCH AREA IS NEAR AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WOODVILLE TO MENDENHALL TO QUITMAN. TORNADO WATCH NO. 1...WHICH WAS ISSUED FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...EXPIRED AT 10 PM. HOWEVER...TORNADO WATCH NO. 2 INCLUDES SEVERAL COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE STATE.
Special weather statement, Jan 1, 10:24 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
MSZ047-053-055>067-072>076-078-079-020500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1025 PM CST MON JAN 1 1996 ...CORRECTED... TORNADO WATCH NO. 2 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM TUESDAY MORNING. THE WATCH AREA IS NEAR AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WOODVILLE TO MENDENHALL TO QUITMAN. TORNADO WATCH NO. 1...WHICH WAS ISSUED FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...EXPIRED AT 10 PM. HOWEVER...TORNADO WATCH NO. 2 INCLUDES SEVERAL COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE STATE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 60 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.