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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1996, 4:15 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 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, 4:15 PM CST (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1996, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lauderdale County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, 1:16 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
114 PM CST MON MAR 18 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION......
1230 PM 10 NW BASTROP LA .75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
03/18/96 MOREHOUSE REPORTED BY GEORGIA PACIFIC
0108 PM ALCORN STATE UNIV MS .75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
03/18/96 CLAIBORNE
0111 PM LEXINGTON MS .88 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
03/18/96 HOLMES REPORTED BY RADIO STATIONSpecial weather statement, Mar 18, 3:19 PM CST, 56 minutes before
MSZ053-059-060-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 319 PM CST MON MAR 18 1996 THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR ADAMS...JEFFERSON AND CLAIRBORNE COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...ENDING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER.
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 3:21 PM CST, 54 minutes before
MSZ053-059-060-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 319 PM CST MON MAR 18 1996 THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR ADAMS...JEFFERSON AND CLAIRBORNE COUNTIES HAS BEE N CANCELLED. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...ENDING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER.
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 3:58 PM CST, 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 4:59 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.