Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 70, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 1992, 7:03 PM CDT for Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1992, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lamar County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lamar, MS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 1926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 KJAN 280003 TORJAN MSC073-280030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 703 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN LAMAR COUNTY AT 700 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT FIVE MILES SOUTH OF SUMRALL. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 40 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, Aug 27, 1:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
MSZALL-272000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 145 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 775 HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE REMNANTS OF ANDREW WERE MOVING INTO ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON... ENDING ITS SEIGE OF MISSISSIPPI WEATHER. TORNADO WATCH NO. 775 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR ANY PART OF MISSISSIPPI. CLOUDS AND LIGHT RAIN PERSISTED OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI BUT SUNSHINE HAD BROKEN THROUGH OVER SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE. THE AIR MASS REMAINED MOIST BEHIND THE STORM AND SCATTERED AFTERNOON SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. A COLD FRONT THAT WAS MOVING THROUGH ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE INTO MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT. THE AIR MASS WILL DRY RAPIDLY BEHIND THE FRONT...PRODUCING SUNNY AND MILD WEATHER IN THE MAGNOLIA STATE FOR THE WEEKEND.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 5:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
MSZ003-008-010-011-272330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 530 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 520 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTH HALF OF MISSISSIPPI. SOME OF THE STORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE NOTED OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI OVER NORTHWEST LINCOLN COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF CASEYVILLE AND IN BASSFIELD IN JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STORMS GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...BRIEF DOWNPOURS OF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED. PERSONS IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI NEED TO BE WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE QUICK ACTION WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 6:37 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
MSZ010-011-280030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 635 PM CDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 625 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM TEN MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIBERTY IN AMITE COUNTY....THROUGH MCCOMB TO PRENTIS IN JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY ON TO HATTIESBURG. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE WERE BETWEEN MONTICELLO IN LAWRENCE COUNTY AND PRENTIS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STORMS STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...BRIEF DOWN POURS OF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED. THE LINE IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE COUNTIES OF WALTHALL...MARIAN...AND LAMAR DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI NEED TO BE WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE QUICK ACTION WHEN THREATENING` WEATHER APPROACHES. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.