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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 371, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1996, 3:13 PM CDT for Jasper County, Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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
- Jul 13, 1996, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1996, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 3:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Heidelberg, 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jul 13, 9:52 AM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
MSZ001>082-140400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CDT SAT JUL 13 1996 A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL TRIGGER WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE STATE TODAY. THE STRONGER STROMS WILL CONTAIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. HOWEVER...SEVERE THUDNERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AT THIS TIME. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTE\RS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 3:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Marion | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Lamar | 49 min |
| Jul 13, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 47 min |
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.