Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 15, 1993, 10:50 PM CST for Kemper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1993, 10:50 PM CST (04:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1993, 11:45 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kemper County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 594 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 789 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 160451 TORMEI MSC069-160545- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1050 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...KEMPER COUNTY AT 1043 PM CST...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 20 MILES WEST OF DE KALB MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 25 min |
| Feb 15, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 25 min |
| Feb 15, 6:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 69 min |
| Feb 15, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Winston | 61 min |
| Feb 15, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison | 46 min |
| Feb 15, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 29 min |
| Feb 15, 7:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 27 min |
| Feb 15, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Yazoo | 39 min |
| Feb 15, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 35 min |
| Feb 15, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 29 min |
| Feb 15, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren, Yazoo | 26 min |
| Feb 15, 8:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 8:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Warren | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 28 min |
| Feb 15, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 52 min |
| Feb 15, 9:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 25 min |
| Feb 15, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 69 min |
| Feb 15, 10:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 17 min |
| Feb 15, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 31 min |
| Feb 16, 12:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 34 min |
| Feb 16, 12:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 42 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.