Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Dec 4, 1993, 6:30 AM CST for Pike County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 1993, 6:30 AM CST (12:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 4, 1993, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 6:30 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Princedale, MS | This weak tornado blew down several trees. A mobile home and a car were damaged by fallen trees. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 041231 TORJAN MSC113-041300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 630 AM CST SAT DEC 4 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...PIKE COUNTY AT 628 AM CST...A TORNADO WAS DETECTED ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCCOMB. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. 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. USE 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, 3 hours 9 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, 3 hours 8 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, 5:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Amite | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.