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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Jackson, MS

March 6, 1996Covington County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 1:21 AM CST for Covington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 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 6, 1996, 1:21 AM CST (07:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1996, 2:00 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Covington County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 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

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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, Mar 6, 1:03 AM CST, 18 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
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, 11:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	42 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, 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
Mar 6, 3:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	48 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.