Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1992, 11:38 PM CST for Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1992, 11:38 PM CST (05:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1992, 12:15 AM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Smith County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 686 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 100541 TORJAN MSC129-100615- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1138 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...SMITH COUNTY AT 1140 PM CST...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS STILL INDICATED BY RADAR MOVING INTO WESTERN SMITH COUNTY NEAR TRAXLER. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TO NEAR OR JUST NORTH OF RALEIGH BY 1150 PM. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR APARTMENT. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD FROM FLYING DEBRbIS WITH CUSHIONS OR PILLOWS. <
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, 9:51 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
MSZALL-101200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 945 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI TUESDAY NIGHT... A STRONG COLD FRONT WHICH WAS TRIGGERING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SECTIONS OF MISSISSIPPI THIS EVENING. AS THE COLD FRONT SWEEPS ACROSS THE STATE LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL USHER IN COLDER AIR. LOW TEMPERATURES BY TUESDAY NIGHT WILL LIKELY DROP INTO THE 20S ACROSS MOST OF NORTH AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI WHILE TEMPERATURES JUST BELOW FREEZING ARE EXPECTED IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... EXCEPT ALONG THE COAST WHERE LOWS SHOULD BE IN THE 30S. OUR RECENT SPELL OF WARM WEATHER HAS BROUGHT MANY TREES AND SHRUBS OUT OF WINTER HIBERNATION. THEREFORE YOU SHOULD START PLANNING NOW TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION...ESPECIALLY FLOWERING SHRUBS AND FRUIT TREES. A FREEZE WARNING MAY HAVE TO BE ISSUED FOR SECTIONS OF MISSISSIPPI TUESDAY NIGHT. HOWEVER AT THIS TIME IT IS TOO EARLY TO TELL WHERE THE BEST THREAT FOR PROLONG FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL OCCUR. YOU ARE ADVISED TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER RELIABLE SOURCES OF WEATHER INFORMATION TUESDAY MORNING FOR THE LATEST DETAILS.
Local storm report, Mar 9, 10:04 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1003 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 TIME (CST) PLACE EVENT OF EVENT 915 PM 25 W GWO SUNFLOWER COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 10:20 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-100515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1019 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA UNTIL 1 AM CST. AT 1015 PM CST MERIDIAN RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY STRONG WITH HEAVY RAIN...OVER MOST OF THE NORTHWESTERN ONE THIRD OF MISSISSIPPI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTHWEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR JACKSON NORTHEAST THROUGH ACKERMAN TO FULTON. THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH WHILE THE AREA WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI BETWEEN MEADVILLE AND PORT GIBSON. THESE T}HUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 10:28 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
MSZ001>003-100530-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1025 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992
...TORNADO WATCH 67 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR A FEW COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST
MISSISSIPPI...
TOR`NADO WATCH 67 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
COAHOMA QUITMAN PINOLA BOLIVAR
WASHINGTON
THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH...CENTRAL AND
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 1 AM CST.Special weather statement, Mar 9, 11:15 PM CST, 23 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-100615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1114 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992 ...THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH INCLUDES MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CST... AT 1110 PM CST RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MONTICELLO TO PHILADELPHIA MISSISSIPPI TO HAMILTON ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 11:21 PM CST, 17 minutes before
MSZ002-003-100630-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1120 PM CST MON MAR 9 1992
...TORNADO WATCH 67 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR A FEW COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST
AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
TORNADO WATCH 67 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
TALLAHATCHIE SUNFLOWER LEFLORE HUMPHREYS
ISSAQUENA SHARKEY WARREN
THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH...CENTRAL AND
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 1 AM CST.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 6:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 28 min |
| Mar 9, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 20 min |
| Mar 9, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 6:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Tallahatchie | 19 min |
| Mar 9, 8:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 43 min |
| Mar 9, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 25 min |
| Mar 9, 9:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington | 42 min |
| Mar 9, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 37 min |
| Mar 9, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada, Yalobusha | 25 min |
| Mar 9, 10:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Yazoo | 52 min |
| Mar 9, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 10:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 49 min |
| Mar 9, 10:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Mar 9, 10:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 39 min |
| Mar 9, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 45 min |
| Mar 9, 11:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 65 min |
| Mar 10, 12:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 12:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 52 min |
| Mar 10, 12:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 50 min |
| Mar 10, 12:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 1:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 47 min |
| Mar 10, 1:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 43 min |
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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.