Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 1993, 3:46 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1993, 3:46 PM CST (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1993, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lauderdale County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEI 302145 TORMEI MSC075-302245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 346 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY AT 344 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF MERIDIAN MISSISSIPPI MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. 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.
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, Mar 30, 1:23 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
MSZALL-302030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 123 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH 73 TILL 6 PM FOR ALL CENTRAL AND MOST OF SOUTH- CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 120 PM CST...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS CENTRAL...AND SECTIONS OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER WASHINGTON...SUNFLOWER...LEFLORE...HOLMES... HINDS...MADISON..AND YAZOO COUNTIES. THESE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND GUSTY WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEASTWARD FARTHER INTO NORTH MISSISSIPPI AS A WARM FRONT MOVE NORTHWARD INTO CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 1:41 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-302045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 142 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 73 WHICH INCLUDES ALL COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND SUMTER AND CHOCTAW COUNTIES IN EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM. AT 130 PM CST MERIDIAN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM RAYMOND TO BAY SPRINGS MISSISSIPPI TO GROVE HILL ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED NEAR JACKSON AND NORTHWEST OF NEWTON MISSISSIPPI. ALSO...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS W"ERE MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 2:20 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
MSZALL-302115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 220 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH 73 TILL 6 PM FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND MOST OF SOUTH- CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 215 PM CST...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEASTWARD AT 25 MPH ACROSS EAST-CENTRAL AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED OVER SECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS GENERALLY EXTENDED FROM CANTON TO OXFORD. THESE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THE LATEST SURFAChE DATA...NUMERICAL MODELS AND SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATED A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING EASTWARD INTO MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT. ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED LATER TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 2:37 PM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
MSZ010-011-012-013-014-302145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 238 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH 73 TILL 6 PM FOR CENTRAL AND MOST OF SOUTH- CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 235 PM CST...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...PARTICULARLY FROM ABOUT PRENTISS TO POPLARVILLE. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL AS THEY CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Mar 30, 3:06 PM CST, 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
307 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993
301 PM CST...NESHOBA COUNTY C.D. REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF PHILDELPHIA.Local storm report, Mar 30, 3:34 PM CST, 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
333 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993
331 PM CST...NESHOBA COUNTY C.D. REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL 8 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF PHILDELPHIA MS...NEAR THE HOUSE MS.
COMMUNITY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 10:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 10:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 11:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 11:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 12:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 68 min |
| Mar 30, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 3:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 4:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 66 min |
| Mar 30, 4:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Rankin, Simpson | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 60 min |
| Mar 30, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson, Smith | 47 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.