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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Jackson, MS

March 2, 1999Bolivar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1999, 11:25 AM CST for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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 2, 1999, 11:25 AM CST (17:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 1999, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Bolivar County, MS

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 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

Special weather statement, Mar 2, 10:00 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 2, 10:00 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	33 min
Mar 2, 2:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	35 min
Mar 2, 2:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Yazoo	35 min
Mar 2, 2:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sharkey	37 min
Mar 2, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	36 min
Mar 2, 2:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	33 min
Mar 2, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Yazoo	35 min
Mar 2, 3:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	50 min
Mar 2, 3:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	48 min
Mar 2, 4:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	49 min
Mar 2, 4:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	49 min
Mar 2, 4:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	49 min
Mar 2, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	67 min
Mar 2, 4:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	34 min
Mar 2, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	48 min
Mar 2, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, West Carroll	50 min
Mar 2, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	49 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.