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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Jackson, MS

May 28, 1996Copiah County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 5:51 PM CDT for Copiah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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: May 28, 1996, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Copiah County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 6:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Hazlehurst, 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 61 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3020 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.7
Supercell composite: 18.2

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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, May 28, 5:14 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
513 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

1025 AM    KOSCIUSKO                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   ATTALA                         TREES DOWN ON POWERLINES

0420 PM    VICKSBURG                 MS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   WARREN

0454 PM    3 SE VICKSBURG            MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   WARREN

0455 PM    3 SE TALLULAH             LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   MADISON                        ALSO...TREES DOWNED...SOME
                                          ON HOUSES WITH DAMAGE
                                          REPORTED

0458 PM    5 E VICKSBURG             MS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/28/96   WARREN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	41 min
May 28, 7:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Leflore	30 min
May 28, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	45 min
May 28, 9:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower	39 min
May 28, 9:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	48 min
May 28, 10:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	27 min
May 28, 12:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	40 min
May 28, 12:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Attala	2 hr
May 28, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	29 min
May 28, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	36 min
May 28, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	45 min
May 28, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sharkey	28 min
May 28, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	47 min
May 28, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	51 min
May 28, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	30 min
May 28, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	30 min
May 28, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	53 min
May 28, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	34 min
May 28, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	28 min
May 28, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	50 min
May 28, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	43 min
May 28, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	39 min
May 28, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	33 min
May 28, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1996 Every 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.