Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 4:54 PM CST for Copiah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports 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
- Feb 27, 1999, 4:54 PM CST (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1999, 5:40 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Copiah County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 5:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, MS | Several trees and power lines were blown down. A mobile home received damage. |
| Feb 27, 5:50 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Wesson, MS | Many homes, a few businesses, and a church were damaged. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 1:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 3:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 3:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 3:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Simpson | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 51 min |
| Feb 27, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 51 min |
| Feb 27, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery, Webster | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 4:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 4:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 4:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 4:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 5:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Oktibbeha, Winston | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 5:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 5:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 51 min |
| Feb 27, 5:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 5:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 5:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Simpson | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 5:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 32 min |
| Feb 27, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 5:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington | 51 min |
| Feb 27, 2:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, West Carroll | 32 min |
| Feb 27, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Richland | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Concordia | 52 min |
| Feb 27, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 2:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 49 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.