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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Jackson, MS

March 18, 1996Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1996, 1:26 AM CST for Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 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 18, 1996, 1:26 AM CST (07:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 1996, 2:00 AM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Forrest County, MS, Lamar County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 18, 1:28 AM CST	Hail 1.75	Brooklyn, 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 811 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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

Special weather statement, Mar 17, 9:50 PM CST, 3 hours 36 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 18, 8:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	49 min
Mar 18, 11:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	38 min
Mar 18, 12:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	32 min
Mar 18, 1:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	25 min
Mar 18, 1:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds	48 min
Mar 18, 1:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	45 min
Mar 18, 1:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah	32 min
Mar 18, 2:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson	53 min
Mar 18, 2:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Choctaw	43 min
Mar 18, 2:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	39 min
Mar 18, 2:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	34 min
Mar 18, 2:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	37 min
Mar 18, 2:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	27 min
Mar 18, 2:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	54 min
Mar 18, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Smith	50 min
Mar 18, 2:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	48 min
Mar 18, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Lamar	45 min
Mar 18, 3:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	54 min
Mar 18, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	50 min
Mar 18, 3:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	43 min
Mar 18, 3:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	54 min
Mar 18, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	49 min
Mar 18, 4:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	53 min
Mar 18, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	45 min
Mar 18, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jasper, Jones	46 min
Mar 18, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	46 min
Mar 18, 7:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula	49 min
Mar 18, 8:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Concordia	35 min
Mar 18, 11:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	25 min
Mar 18, 11:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	49 min
Mar 18, 7:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.