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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 444, NWS Jackson, MS

November 24, 1996Jefferson County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 1996, 10:15 PM CST for Jefferson 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
Nov 24, 1996, 10:15 PM CST (04:15 UTC)
Expired
Nov 24, 1996, 10:45 PM CST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Jefferson County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 00:00Z on 1996-11-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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 00:00Z on 1996-11-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Nov 24, 10:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne36 min
Nov 24, 10:34 PM CSTTornado WarningJANClaiborne26 min
Nov 24, 11:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWarren30 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.