Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 421, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 1996, 12:49 AM CDT for Holmes 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
- Oct 18, 1996, 12:49 AM CDT (05:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 1996, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holmes County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 1290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1209 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 180551 SVRJAN MSC051-180630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1249 AM CDT FRI OCT 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...HOLMES COUNTY AT 1247 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN HOLMES COUNTY FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF EBENEZER...TO JUST EAST OF LEXINGTON...TO NEAR WEST. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 17 IN HOLMES COUNTY WILL BE AFF<ECTED BY THESE STORMS THROUGH 130 AM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. <
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, Oct 17, 11:56 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
1155 PM CDT THU OCT 17 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1151 PM GREENVILLE MS 63 MPH TSTM GUST
10/17/96 WASHINGTON WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES
1152 PM ELIZABETH MS 1.75 INCH HAIL
10/17/96 WASHINGTON
1153 PM 1 E GREENVILLE M~S WIND DAMAGE
10/17/96 WASHINGTON TREES DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 53 min |
| Oct 17, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower | 49 min |
| Oct 17, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 49 min |
| Oct 18, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster | 48 min |
| Oct 18, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 51 min |
| Oct 18, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton | 31 min |
| Oct 18, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 30 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.