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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Jackson, MS

November 21, 1992Pike County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 21, 1992, 10:24 PM CST for Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 21, 1992, 10:24 PM CST (04:24 UTC)
Expired
Nov 21, 1992, 11:15 PM CST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1992-11-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 1992-11-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Nov 21, 7:53 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013-
ALZ004-008-013-016-220600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
730 PM CST SAT NOV 21 1992

STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING FRONTAL SYSTEM HAS PROVIDED
A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVER MISSISSIPPI. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
HAVE DEVELOPED IN THIS ENVIRONMENT WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOME
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 25
MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREENWOOD AND WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 30
MILES AN HOUR.

STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER LOUISIANA IN THE VICINITY OF AN
INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM THAT WAS NEAR THE LOUISIANA-TEXAS BORDER.
THE LOW WILL LIFT SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST TONIGHT...DRAGGING A VIGOROUS COLD
FRONT SLOWLY ACROSS MISSISSIPPI. RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE OVER
THE STATE AS THE FRONT INCHES TOWARD OUR AREA AND A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH
MAY BE ISSUED LATER THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Nov 21, 9:37 PM CST, 47 minutes before
MSZALL-ARZ014>016-LAZ002-003-004-006-009-010-013-
ALZ004-008-013-016-220600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
930 PM CST SAT NOV 21 1992

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 914 IN EFFECT TIL 3 AM CST SUNDAY...ALONG AND
SOUTH OF A CLARKSDALE TO TUPELO LINE.

AT 925 PM JACKSON RADAR INDICATED CLUSTERS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...
WITHIN AN AREA OF RAIN...STRETCHING FROM MOUND BAYOU IN THE DELTA...
SOUTHWARD TO JUST WEST OF NATCHEZ.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF NATCHEZ...JUST EAST OF GREENVILLE...AND
NEAR LAKE PROVIDENCE IN LOUISIANA.

MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

RESIDENTS IN THE TORNADO W`ATCH AREA SHOULE BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND EVEN THE POSSIBILITY OF
ISOLATED TORNADOES.  STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 21, 10:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAmite, Franklin54 min
Nov 21, 10:29 PM CSTTornado WarningJANWalthall46 min
Nov 21, 10:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah, Lincoln26 min
Nov 21, 10:56 PM CSTTornado WarningJANCopiah34 min
Nov 21, 11:13 PM CSTTornado WarningJANJefferson Davis, Lawrence32 min
Nov 21, 11:45 PM CSTTornado WarningJANCovington, Smith30 min
Nov 22, 12:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLeake, Scott33 min
Nov 22, 12:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin33 min
Nov 22, 12:18 AM CSTTornado WarningJANSmith27 min
Nov 22, 12:24 AM CSTTornado WarningJANLeake36 min
Nov 22, 12:31 AM CSTTornado WarningJANJasper59 min
Nov 22, 12:43 AM CSTTornado WarningJANNewton62 min
Nov 22, 12:58 AM CSTTornado WarningJANAttala32 min
Nov 22, 1:20 AM CSTTornado WarningJANLauderdale55 min
Nov 22, 1:35 AM CSTTornado WarningJANKemper55 min
Nov 22, 2:11 AM CSTTornado WarningJANNewton64 min
Nov 22, 2:18 AM CSTTornado WarningJANLauderdale57 min
Nov 22, 3:20 AM CSTTornado WarningJANLauderdale40 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.