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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Jackson, MS

January 31, 1986Choctaw County, Alabama; Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 31, 1986, 11:50 AM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama; Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 31, 1986, 11:50 AM CST (17:50 UTC)
Expired
Jan 31, 1986, 12:15 PM CST
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Choctaw County, AL, Jones County, MS

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 12:00Z on 1986-01-31Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1986-01-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMEI 311750
TORMEI
ALC023-MSC067-311815-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
1150 AM CST FRI JAN 31 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

EXTREME WEST ALABAMA...CHOCTAW
EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...JONES


  THIS IS WSO MERIDIAN TESTING.   THIS IS A TEST.
  TEST.
  TEST
  TESTO
  TEST

 IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 31, 11:59 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJasper, Neshoba56 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.