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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT for Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 45 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 22, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tensas Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 222115 SVRJAN LAC107-222200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 415 PM CDT MON APR 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ...TENSAS PARISH JACKSON WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WATERPROOF MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE TO THE NORTH OF WATERPROOF TO NEAR SAINT JOSEPH BY 430 PM. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING WINDS...LHARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. <
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 22, 11:03 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
MSZ001>082-230400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1103 AM CDT MON APR 22 1996 ...MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A MCCOMB TO LAUREL TO COLUMBUS LINE FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT THIS MORNING WAS LOCATED ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST TEXAS. NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FIRED ALONG THE FRONT ACROSS TEXAS...OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS LAST NIGHT. SOUTHERLY WINDS WERE TRANSPORTING ABUNDANT GULF MOISTURE NORTH ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY...AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME MORE UNSTABLE ACROSS THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE NORTHWEST HALF OF MISSISSIPPI WILL SEE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE STATE. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE. AT THE PRESENT TIME...IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...HAM RADIO AND SPOTTER PERSONNEL WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED BY LATER 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 22, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 40 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.