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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 308, NWS Jackson, MS

May 29, 1996Franklin County, Lincoln County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 2:32 AM CDT for Franklin County, Lincoln County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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: May 29, 1996, 2:32 AM CDT (07:32 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1996, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, MS, Lincoln County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.7

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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, 10:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
1023 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

0450 PM    VICKSBURG                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   WARREN                         SIGN BLOWN DOWN AT THE
                                          QUALITY INN

0525 PM    NEWMAN                    MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   HINDS                          TREES DOWNED... ALSO DIME
                                          SIZED HAIL

0540 PM    1 W LEARNED               MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   HINDS                          TREES DOWNED

0700 PM                              LA   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   RICHLAND                       TREES DOWN

0745 PM                              LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   RICHLAND

0745 PM    BASKIN                    LA   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   FRANKLIN                       ROOF BLOWN OFF HOUSE...
                                          TREES DOWNED

0955 PM    2 N HATTIESBURG           MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   FORREST                        TREES DOWN

1018 PM    SEMINARY                  MS   .75 INCH HA`IL
05/28/96   COVINGTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	41 min
May 28, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	45 min
May 28, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	59 min
May 28, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	43 min
May 28, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones, Lamar	40 min
May 28, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	32 min
May 28, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	47 min
May 28, 10:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams	40 min
May 28, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	45 min
May 28, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	44 min
May 28, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	43 min
May 29, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	29 min
May 29, 2:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	53 min
May 28, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	39 min
May 28, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	41 min
May 28, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	67 min
May 28, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	41 min
May 28, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	67 min
May 28, 11:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Franklin, Richland	118 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.