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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 21, 1993, 12:27 PM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 1993, 12:27 PM CST (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1993, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Choctaw County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 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 211827 TORMEI ALC023-211915- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1227 PM CST SUN FEB 21 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...CHOCTAW COUNTY AT 1227 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUTLER ALABAMA MOVING 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...PbILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, Feb 21, 8:50 AM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-211545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 850 AM CST SUN FEB 21 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI UNTIL NOON... AT 840 AM CST MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS COVERING A LARGE PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED WITHIN A 100 MILE WIDE AREA EXTENDING FROM NEAR MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI NORTHEAST THROUGH MERIDIAN TO NEAR TUSCALOOSA ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BETWEEN RALEIGH AND STRINGER IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. LITTLE CHANGE IN COVERAGE OR INTENSIpTY HAS BEEN INDICATED DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 9:26 AM CST, 3 hours 1 minute before
MSZALL-211300 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 925 AM CST SUN FEB 21 1993 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 31 FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED CLEAR THE THE WATCH AREA. HOWEVER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 32 FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 NOON THIS SUNDAY MORNING.
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 9:52 AM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
MSZ009-012-211700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 951 AM CST SUN FEB 21 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 32 FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI CONTINUES UNTIL NOON CST... AT 941 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED RAIN WITH SEVERAL STRONG THUNDER STORMS CONTINUED GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM JACKSON TO MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI AND INTO ALABAMA TO DIXON MILLS. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI WAS NOTED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON OVER NEWTON COUNTY. OTHER INTENSE STORMS WERE APPARENT OVER MISSISSIPPI SOUTH OF JACKSON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ALERT& FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 10:44 AM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
MSZ009-012-211745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1044 AM CST SUN FEB 21 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 32 FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST... AT 1036 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BAY SPRINGS MISSISSIPPI. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING GENERALLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM MAGEE MISSISSIPPI TO LAUDERDALE MISSISSIPPI. THE STORMS EXTENDED SOUTH TO HATTIESBURG MISSISSIPPI AND INTO ALABAMA NEAR DIXON MILLS. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ALERT FOR FUTURE STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. EVEN THOUGH SUNSHINE MAY BE RETURNING TO SOME AREAS...THIS COULD PRODUCE FALSE HOPE...SERVING ONLY AS A IMPETUOUS FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT.
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 11:24 AM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
MSZALL-211800 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1120 AM CST SUN FEB 21 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 12 MOON CST FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI... AT 1115AM CST RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH OF MERIDIAN TO SOUTH OF RALEIGH. THE STORMS WERE STILL MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER TORNADO WATCH WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY FOR SECTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THE AIRMASS OVER OUR REGION REMIANS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. SINCE THE AIR IS BEING HEATED...MORE SEVERE STORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP RAPIDLY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON OVER WEST MISSISSIPPI THEN MOVE QUICKLY TO THE EAST. STAY ALERT TO YPUR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR A RELIABLE SOURCE OF WEATHER INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 11:47 AM CST, 40 minutes before
MSZALL-211835 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1135 AM CST SUN FEB 21 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 34 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... AT 1125 AM CST RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...BETWEEN MAGEE... MERIDIAN...AND CRANDALL. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST OF MIZE... AND BETWEEN BAY SPRINGS AND HEIDELBERG. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 32 IS NOW REPLACED BY TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 34...IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST. THIS WATCH COVERS A LARGE PART OF EASTERN MISSISSIPPI...EAST OF A LINE FROM RIPLEY...TO WINONA...TO JACKSON... TO HAZELHURST. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS. STAY ALERT TO YOUR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR A RELIABLE SOURCE OF WEATHER INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON.
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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.