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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS New Orleans, LA

April 12, 1996Wilkinson County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1996, 10:19 PM CDT for Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 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
Apr 12, 1996, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS New Orleans, LA
Area
Whole counties

County Wilkinson County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 00:00Z on 1996-04-13Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1996-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
1848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 12, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXPointe Coupee41 min
Apr 13, 3:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXHarrison53 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.