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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 11:18 PM CST for Jefferson Davis 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
- Mar 5, 1996, 11:18 PM CST (05:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1996, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson Davis County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 745 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 060518 RRA SVRJAN MSC065-060600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1118 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY AT 1117 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BASSFIELD MOVING NORTHEAST 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR BASSFIELD BY 1135 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 CONDITIONS. <
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 46 min |
| Mar 5, 9:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 49 min |
| Mar 5, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 49 min |
| Mar 5, 11:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 11:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Marion | 36 min |
| Mar 5, 11:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Lamar | 50 min |
| Mar 5, 11:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 50 min |
| Mar 6, 12:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 30 min |
| Mar 6, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 30 min |
| Mar 6, 1:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 39 min |
| Mar 6, 1:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 28 min |
| Mar 6, 1:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 39 min |
| Mar 6, 2:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 38 min |
| Mar 6, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 44 min |
| Mar 6, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 5:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 49 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.