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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 1991, 11:40 AM CST for Montgomery County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 1991, 11:40 AM CST (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 1991, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 221744 COR TORJAN MSC097-221745- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1140 AM CST FRI FEB 22 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 1135 AM JACKSON RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT CONTAIN A POSSIBLE TORNADO APPROACHING KILMICHAEL ON HIGHWAY 82. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHWEST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR IS STILL INDICATING LARGE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET UNjDER STURDY FURNITURE. USE PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR HEAD. <
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, Feb 22, 9:51 AM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
MSZ006-008-009-012-013-014-221730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 950 AM CST FRI FEB 22 1991 AT 945AM ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A WEDGE OF VERY UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES AND ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. MOVEMENTS HAVE BEEN TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN HOLMES COUNTY AND IN CENTRAL SMITH COUNTY AND MAY CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...SOME HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. RESIDENTS IN THE LEXINGTON AND RALEIGH COMMUNITIES SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR THE NEXT HOUR AS THESE STDORMS MOVE THROUGH AND BE READY TO TAKE SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 11:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 12:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 2:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 51 min |
| Feb 22, 5:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington | 4 hr |
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.