Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1992, 3:11 PM CST for Calhoun County, Grenada County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1992, 3:11 PM CST (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1992, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, MS, Grenada County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 092114 TORJAN MSC013-043-092200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 311 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...CALHOUN COUNTY...EASTERN GRENADA COUNTY AT...310 PM NWS RADAR IN JACKSON INDICATED A TORNADO ACROSS EASTERN GRENADA COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET UNDER 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, Mar 9, 11:09 AM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
MS001-002-004-006-091800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1105 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... AT 1105 AM CST RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM INTENSIFYING ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN BOLIVAR COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME HAIL AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY AFFECT THE TOWNS OF ROSEDALE...CLEVELAND AND SHELBY. MORE STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD OCCUR LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS MISSISSIPPI. YOU ARE ADVISED TO STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL TV...RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND9 POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES AND WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 12:48 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013- ALZ004-008-013-016-091930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1235 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... AT 1235 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN JACKSON STILL INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS EXTENDED FROM GREENVILLE TO RULEVILLE TO BATESVILLE. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING IN NORTHERN SUNFLOWER COUNTY MOVING INTO TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. BESIDES HEAVY RAIN...THE STORMS WILL ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL. ELSEWHERE LIGHT RAIN EXTENDED AS FAR EAST AS GRENADA AND GREENWOOD. THE RAIN EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL OVERSPREAD THE REMAINDER OF NORTH AND WEST MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AN>D TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 3:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 27 min |
| Mar 9, 3:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 39 min |
| Mar 9, 4:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 43 min |
| Mar 9, 4:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 25 min |
| Mar 9, 5:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 33 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.