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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Jackson, MS

March 18, 1996Ashley County, Arkansas

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1996, 7:38 AM CST for Ashley County, Arkansas. It was in force for 67 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 18, 1996, 7:38 AM CST (13:38 UTC)
Expired
Mar 18, 1996, 8:45 AM CST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Ashley County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 12:00Z on 1996-03-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-03-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1166 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 18, 2:41 AM CST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 18, 1:26 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANForrest, Lamar34 min
Mar 18, 8:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJefferson49 min
Mar 18, 11:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANIssaquena38 min
Mar 18, 12:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHolmes32 min
Mar 18, 1:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne25 min
Mar 18, 1:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah, Hinds48 min
Mar 18, 1:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAttala45 min
Mar 18, 1:58 PM CSTTornado WarningJANCopiah32 min
Mar 18, 2:07 PM CSTTornado WarningJANRankin, Simpson53 min
Mar 18, 2:17 PM CSTTornado WarningJANAttala, Choctaw43 min
Mar 18, 2:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah, Lincoln39 min
Mar 18, 2:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMarion34 min
Mar 18, 2:38 PM CSTTornado WarningJANJefferson Davis, Marion37 min
Mar 18, 2:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison27 min
Mar 18, 2:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANOktibbeha54 min
Mar 18, 2:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANScott, Smith50 min
Mar 18, 2:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWinston48 min
Mar 18, 3:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCovington, Lamar45 min
Mar 18, 3:06 PM CSTTornado WarningJANForrest, Lamar54 min
Mar 18, 3:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLeake50 min
Mar 18, 3:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNeshoba, Newton43 min
Mar 18, 3:21 PM CSTTornado WarningJANJones54 min
Mar 18, 3:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANForrest, Lamar49 min
Mar 18, 4:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJones53 min
Mar 18, 4:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLauderdale45 min
Mar 18, 4:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANForrest, Jasper, Jones46 min
Mar 18, 4:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLamar46 min
Mar 18, 7:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCatahoula49 min
Mar 18, 8:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANConcordia35 min
Mar 18, 11:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANEast Carroll25 min
Mar 18, 11:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMorehouse49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.