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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 15, 1993, 6:14 PM CST for Winston County, Mississippi. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1993, 6:14 PM CST (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1993, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Winston County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 490 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 694 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEI 160016 TORMEI MSC159-160115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 614 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MERIDIAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...WINSTON COUNTY AT 614 PM CST MERIDIAN RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE MISSISSIPPI MOVING EAST AT 45 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 BLANKjETS...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, Feb 15, 2:28 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
MSZALL-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 215 PM CST MON FEB 15 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS POISED TO THE WEST...SOME SEVERE FOR TONIGHT... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ERUPTED FROM NORTHWEST LOUISIANA BACK INTO CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS ARE MARCHING EASTWARD AT BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH MEANING THAT THEY COULD REACH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BETWEEN 4 AND 6 PM CST. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE NORTHWEST HALF OF LOUISIANA AT THIS TIME. A DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE CENTER NEAR WACO, TX WILL ACCELERATE NORTHEAST REACHING NEAR MEMPHIS BY MIDNIGHT. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS GUSTING UP TO 35 OR 40 MPH ARE LIKELY TO IMPACT THE WESTERN HALF OF MISSISSIPPI SHORTLY AND A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THOSE AREAS. INCREASING WARM MOIST AIR FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL FUEL THE THUNDER- STORMS AS THEY RACE ACROSS THE MAGNOLIA STATE TONIGHT. < RESIDENTS OF MAINLY CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI SHOULD KEEP TUNED TO THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION THROUGH TONIGHT. CHECK YOUR SAFETY PLANS AND BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS IS BECOMING A DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION AND YOUR RESPONSE TO APPROACHING SEVERE STORMS COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE... SECONDS CAN BE THE DIFFERENCE.
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, 6:44 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 15, 10:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 55 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 |
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.