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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 424, NWS Jackson, MS

October 18, 1996Kemper County, Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT for Kemper County, Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 1996, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 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

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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

Local storm report, Oct 17, 11:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 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 DOWN

Special weather statement, Oct 18, 2:28 AM CDT, 32 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
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, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	41 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 17, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula	46 min
Oct 17, 11:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula	46 min
Oct 17, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	53 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.