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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Jackson, MS
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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 18, 1:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 34 min |
| 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 |
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.