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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 16, 1987, 4:33 PM CST for Kemper County, Neshoba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report 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
- Nov 16, 1987, 4:33 PM CST (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 1987, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kemper County, MS, Neshoba County, MS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 4:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Neshoba, MS |
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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 412 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 733 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEI 162233 TORMEI MSC069-099-103-162315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 433 PM CST MON NOV 16 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...KEMPER...NESHOBA AND NOXUBEE AT 430 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR PHILADELPHIA MISSISSIPPI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM THAT ALREADY HAS A HISTORY OF SEVERE WEATHER. PERSONS IN THE THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Nov 16, 11:54 AM CST, 4 hours 39 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1135 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM... AT 1135 AM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI FROM NEAR YAZOO CITY SOUTHWARD TO NEAR UTICA. THE STRONGEST STORM IN THIS LINE IS LOCATED NEAR THE BIG BLACK RIVER NORTH OF FLORA...AND IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THIS STORM...AND TORNADO WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MADISON AND YAZOO COUNTIES. THE MAIN STORM SYSTEM IS STILL TO THE WEST OF MISSISSIPPI...BUT IS MOVING SLOWLY IN OUR DIRECTION. AS A RESULT...THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...TORNADOES...AND FLAESH FLOODING WILL EXIST FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Nov 16, 12:02 PM CST, 4 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1135 AM CST MON NOV 16 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM... AT 1135 AM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI FROM NEAR YAZOO CITY SOUTHWARD TO NEAR UTICA. THE STRONGEST STORM IN THIS LINE IS LOCATED NEAR THE BIG BLACK RIVER NORTH OF FLORA...AND IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THIS STORM...AND TORNADO WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MADISON AND YAZOO COUNTIES. THE MAIN STORM SYSTEM IS STILL TO THE WEST OF MISSISSIPPI...BUT IS MOVING SLOWLY IN OUR DIRECTION. AS A RESULT...THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMRS...TORNADOES...AND FLASH FLOODING WILL EXIST FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Nov 16, 12:35 PM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1230 PM CST MON NOV 16 1987 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 551 WHICH INCLUDES ALL COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST THIS EVENING. AT 1230 PM NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED IN OR CLOSE TO EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. HOWEVER...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER WESTERN MISSISSIPPI AND WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AND WILL BE APPROACHING EAS T CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BY MID AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Nov 16, 2:11 PM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 200 PM CST MON NOV 16 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI TIL 8 PM... AT 200 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COVER MUCH OF THE WESTERN HALF OF MISSISSIPPI...GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM KOSCIUSKO TO JACKSON TO AMITE COUNTY IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN CLAIBORNE AND SHARKEY COUNTIES AT THE PRESENT TIME...AND ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE LARGE AREA OF RAIN CONTAINING THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD...AND SHOULD AFFECT MORE OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND yTORNADOES... SOME FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY. A FEW SPOTS HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED NEARLY 6 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 6 AM THIS MORNING...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Nov 16, 2:22 PM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 220 PM CST MON NOV 16 1987 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 551 WHICH INCLUDES ALL COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST THIS EVENING. AT 215 PM SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE SPREADING RAPIDLY ACROSS EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THE AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED EASTWARD INTO CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI WITHIN THE NEXT TWO TO THREE HOURS. RESIDENTS OF EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL, STRONG GUSTY WINDS, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOS.
Special weather statement, Nov 16, 3:30 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 325 PM CST MON NOV 16 1987 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 551 WHICH INCLUDES ALL COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST THIS EVENING. AT 320 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THEY WERE MOSTLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM ACKERMAN TO FOREST TO WAYNESBORO. ALSO THERE WAS A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN GRENADA AMD TYLERTOWN. THE SCATTER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH AND THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE LIVING IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME WEST CENTAL ALABAMA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE SAFETY MEARSURES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 41 min |
| Nov 16, 9:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 31 min |
| Nov 16, 11:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Warren | 119 min |
| Nov 16, 11:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 30 min |
| Nov 16, 11:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 48 min |
| Nov 16, 1:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 44 min |
| Nov 16, 1:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson, Warren | 115 min |
| Nov 16, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 44 min |
| Nov 16, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 31 min |
| Nov 16, 2:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 34 min |
| Nov 16, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 28 min |
| Nov 16, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 38 min |
| Nov 16, 3:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Madison | 48 min |
| Nov 16, 3:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 28 min |
| Nov 16, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 36 min |
| Nov 16, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Winston | 30 min |
| Nov 16, 4:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 20 min |
| Nov 16, 4:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 42 min |
| Nov 16, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 41 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 1987Every tornado warning in 1987Tornadoes in 1987
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.