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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 18, 1992, 4:11 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 1992, 4:11 PM CST (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1992, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEI 182211 TORMEI MSC153-182315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 411 PM CST WED MAR 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...WAYNE COUNTY AT 410 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO MISSISSIPPI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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 18, 12:02 PM CST, 4 hours 9 minutes before
MSZALL-181900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1201 PM CST WED MAR 18 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AT 1200 NOON...A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUED TO COVER THE MAJORITY OF MISSISSIPPI. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS AT THE SURFACE CONTINUED TO PUMP WARM MOIST AIR FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO OVER THE STATE...BUT THE RAIN WAS PREVENTING TEMPERATURES FROM WARMING UP INTO THE 70S. WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ACROSS ARKANSAS AND WESTERN LOUISIANA THE SUN WAS HEATING TEMPERATURES INTO THE 70S. CONSEQUENTLY...THE MOST UNSTABLE AIR WAS STILL WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER...AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN LOUISIANA. THE COMBINATION OF STRONG LOW-LEVEL AND UPPER-LEVEL WINDS AND INCREASING INSTABILITY WILL RESULT IN A STRONG POTENTIAL OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN THIS KIND OF ENVIRONMENT. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT SHOULD SPREAD RAPIDLY EASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND SHOULD BE ENDING OVER EASTERN MISSISSIPPI BEFORE MIDNIGHT. IT APPEARS STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE DEVELOP WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN MISSISSIPPI BY THE MIDDLE OF THE AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 1:37 PM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
MSZALL-190015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 136 PM CST WED MAR 18 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NO. 83 IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON WITH GOOD CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER... WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE RIPE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL SO FAR TODAY IS INDICATED OVER SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF THE STATE AND EXTENDING INTO LOUISIANA. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THIS AREA WITHIN THE NEXT TWO HOURS AND DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL ARE LIKELY. GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE PERSISTED OVER MISSISSIPPI ALL DAY...FORCING WARM AND MOIST AIR INTO THE AREA. DUE TO CONTINUOUS RAIN IN THE AREA...TEMPERATURES HAVE REMAINED IN THE 60S BUT IN SOUTHERN LOUISIANA...WHERE RAINFALL HAS ENDED...TEMPERATURES HAVE QUICKLY RISEN INTO THE 70S TO PROVIDE EVEN MORE ENERGY TO THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL DEVELOP. A POTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION IS DEVELOPING OVER MISSISSIPPI...PARTICULARLY SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...AT THIS TIME. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE SOUTH IN THE NEXT COUPLE HOUERS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. IN THE VERY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT IN PLACE OVER THE STATE...TORNADOES MAY DEVELOP LATER TODAY.
Local storm report, Mar 18, 3:58 PM CST, 13 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 358 PM CST WED MAR 18 1992 JONES COUNTY C. D. REPORTS NICKLE SIZE HAIL NEAR MOSELLE MISSISSIPPI AT 340 PM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Lamar | 31 min |
| Mar 18, 3:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 36 min |
| Mar 18, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 45 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.