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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Jackson, MS

May 26, 1992Franklin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1992, 2:41 PM CDT for Franklin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 1992, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1992, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 261942
TORJAN
MSC037-262015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
241 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 242 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO WITH
THE STORM NEAR MEADVILLE IN FRANKLIN COUNTY. IF YOU LIVE NEAR THIS
STORM TAKE COVER NOW!
 
 
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.
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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, May 26, 2:28 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013-
ALZ004-008-013-016-262030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
 225 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1992

 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 259 TIL 8 PM CDT FOR EXTREME WEST CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARCH IS IN EFFETC UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR EXTREME
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI.  THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE TOWNS
OF VICKSBURG...PORT GIBSON...NATCHEZ...WOODVILLE AND LIBERTY.

AT 230 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN JACKSON INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
WITH HEAVY RAIN COVERING THE SOUTH HALF OF MISSISSIPPI...MAINLY SOUTH OF
I-20.  THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRIG NEAR VICKSBURG...10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF NATCHEZ AND NEAR ROXIE.  ANOTHER STRING THUNDERSTORM WAS
NEAR MOREAUVILLE LOUISIANA...MOVING TOWARDS WOODVILLE MISSISSIPPI.

BESIDES HEAVY RAIN...THE STORMS MAY ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME HAIL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS HAVE A TENDENCY TO DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY...WEAKEN A BIT
THEN RE-INTENSIFY.  IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...ESPECIALLY
NEAR ONE OF THE LARGER STORMS...BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF THE
WEATHER TURNS THREATENING.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	26 min
May 26, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Pike	47 min
May 26, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Amite, Lincoln	28 min
May 26, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Wayne	52 min
May 26, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	41 min
May 26, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	52 min
May 26, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	36 min
May 26, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	35 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.