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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Jackson, MS

February 19, 1996Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 1996, 2:49 PM CST for Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 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: Feb 19, 1996, 2:49 PM CST (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Feb 19, 1996, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Rankin County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 14 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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

Special weather statement, Feb 19, 9:16 AM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 19, 1:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	49 min
Feb 19, 1:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	30 min
Feb 19, 2:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	25 min
Feb 19, 2:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	53 min
Feb 19, 2:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	34 min
Feb 19, 3:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	44 min
Feb 19, 3:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	53 min
Feb 19, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	45 min
Feb 19, 3:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	41 min
Feb 19, 3:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	37 min
Feb 19, 4:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	36 min
Feb 19, 4:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	48 min
Feb 19, 4:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	40 min
Feb 19, 4:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	48 min
Feb 19, 12:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	50 min
Feb 19, 1:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	44 min
Feb 19, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	42 min
Feb 19, 2:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	47 min
Feb 19, 2:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula	46 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.