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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Dec 4, 1993, 5:37 AM CST for Amite County, Mississippi. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 1993, 5:37 AM CST (11:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 4, 1993, 6:15 AM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Amite County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 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 041138 TORJAN MSC005-041215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 537 AM CST SAT DEC 4 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...AMITE COUNTY AT 536 AM CST...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED NEAR LIBERTY IN CENTRAL AMITE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST AMITE COUNTY TO BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER NOW. 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. US$E 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, Dec 4, 3:21 AM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes before
MSZALL-041030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 321 AM CST SAT DEC 4 1993 ...STRONG WINDS TO ACCOMPANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 315 AM CDT...THE LEADING EDGE OF HEAVY RAINSHOWERS STRETCHED FROM NORTHEAST OF VICKSBURG NEAR REDWOOD....BACK TO GRAND GULF AND WOODVILLE IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. AS THESE SHOWERS...AND POSSIBLY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AT OR ABOVE 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. UPPER AIR WINDS ALONG AND BEHIND THESE SHOWERS WERE FAIRLY STRONG...AND WILL LIKELY WORK DOWN TO THE SURFACE. PERSONS LIVING IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE STRONG WINDS. THE WINDS WILL EVENTUALLY DIMINISH AND SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. &
Special weather statement, Dec 4, 3:22 AM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
MSZALL-041030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 321 AM CST SAT DEC 4 1993 ...STRONG WINDS TO ACCOMPANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... AT 315 AM CDT...THE LEADING EDGE OF HEAVY RAINSHOWERS STRETCHED FROM NORTHEAST OF VICKSBURG NEAR REDWOOD....BACK TO GRAND GULF AND WOODVILLE IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. AS THESE SHOWERS...AND POSSIBLY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AT OR ABOVE 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. UPPER AIR WINDS ALONG AND BEHIND THESE SHOWERS WERE FAIRLY STRONG...AND WILL LIKELY WORK DOWN TO THE SURFACE. PERSONS LIVING IN SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE STRONG WINDS. THE WINDS WILL EVENTUALLY DIMINISH AND SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Wilkinson | 33 min |
| Dec 4, 5:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Dec 4, 5:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 49 min |
| Dec 4, 6:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Pike | 30 min |
| Dec 4, 6:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 39 min |
| Dec 4, 7:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 29 min |
| Dec 4, 7:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 39 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.