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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Jackson, MS

February 19, 1996Marion County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 19, 1996, 4:20 PM CST for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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, 4:20 PM CST (22:20 UTC)
Expired: Feb 19, 1996, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Marion County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 192219 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC091-192300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
420 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...MARION COUNTY
 
AT 418 PM THE JACKSON RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES
NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA MOVING SOUTHEAST 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS
HIGHWAY 44 BY 430 PM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN
CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER NCONDITIONS.
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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, 2:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	41 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, 4:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	48 min

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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.