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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Jackson, MS

March 6, 1996Leake County, Scott County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 9:03 PM CST for Leake County, Scott County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 1996, 9:03 PM CST (03:03 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1996, 9:45 PM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Leake County, MS, Scott County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 6, 9:10 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest, MS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 971 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 5.4

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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, 4:03 PM CST, 5 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
402 PM CST WED MAR  6 1996

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION......

0353 PM    CROSSETT AR               AR   1.75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
03/06/96   ASHLEY

JB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 6:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	47 min
Mar 6, 6:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	52 min
Mar 6, 7:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	49 min
Mar 6, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	45 min
Mar 6, 7:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Rankin	48 min
Mar 6, 8:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	31 min
Mar 7, 12:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.