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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Jackson, MS

April 22, 1996Madison County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1996, 7:12 PM CDT for Madison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 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, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Apr 22, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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 00:00Z on 1996-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 853 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 00:00Z on 1996-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 195 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
853 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
5.9

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 22, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo45 min
Apr 22, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne, Warren34 min
Apr 22, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo30 min
Apr 22, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne, Hinds37 min
Apr 22, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningJANHinds, Madison, Yazoo48 min
Apr 22, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHolmes, Yazoo67 min
Apr 22, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds30 min
Apr 22, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningJANHinds, Rankin52 min
Apr 22, 9:18 PM CDTTornado WarningJANCopiah27 min
Apr 22, 9:26 PM CDTTornado WarningJANMadison34 min
Apr 22, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WarningJANAttala, Holmes46 min
Apr 22, 9:43 PM CDTTornado WarningJANLeake, Scott47 min
Apr 22, 9:48 PM CDTTornado WarningJANSimpson42 min
Apr 22, 10:13 PM CDTTornado WarningJANAttala, Choctaw, Winston47 min
Apr 22, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCovington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson49 min
Apr 22, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSmith49 min
Apr 22, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNeshoba, Newton30 min
Apr 22, 10:50 PM CDTTornado WarningJANNoxubee, Winston40 min
Apr 22, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANKemper, Lauderdale38 min
Apr 22, 11:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClarke42 min
Apr 22, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningJANTensas39 min
Apr 22, 7:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJANFranklin, Madison, Tensas2 hr

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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.