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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 401, NWS Jackson, MS

September 16, 1996Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1996, 10:03 AM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 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
Sep 16, 1996, 10:03 AM CDT (15:03 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 1996, 10:45 AM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1996-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1948 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1996-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 271 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.9
Supercell composite
14.7

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 1:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin43 min
Sep 16, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANScott42 min
Sep 16, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNewton39 min
Sep 16, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSimpson, Smith43 min
Sep 16, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLauderdale, Newton48 min
Sep 16, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper48 min
Sep 16, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClarke50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.