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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Jackson, MS

April 22, 1996Claiborne County, Hinds County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1996, 8:38 PM CDT for Claiborne County, Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports 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 22, 1996, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
Expired
Apr 22, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Claiborne County, MS, Hinds County, MS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 22, 9:07 PM CDTThunderstorm WindByram, MS
Apr 22, 9:10 PM CDTThunderstorm WindJackson, 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 60 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

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 22, 8:06 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
806 PM CDT MON APR 22 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0445 PM    MOUND                     LA   WIND DAMAGE
04/22/96   MADISON                        TREES DOWN AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWN IN EASTERN MADISON
                                          PARISH.

0453 PM    VICKSBURG                 MS   66 MPH TSTM GUST
04/22/96   WARREN                         ASOS REPORTED WIND GUSTS
                                          OF 66 MPH.

0615 PM    BOLTON                    MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/22/96   HINDS                          QUARTER AND GOLFBALL SIZE
                                          HAIL.

0737 PM    YOKENA                    MS   .5 INCH HAIL
04/22/96   WARREN                         MARBLE SIZE HAIL.

0744 PM    YAZOO CITY                MS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/96   YAZOO                          DIME SIZE HAIL

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, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison33 min
Apr 22, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne, Warren34 min
Apr 22, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo30 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.