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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS

March 27, 1994Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1994, 1:44 PM CST for Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 27, 1994, 1:44 PM CST (19:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 1994, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Rankin County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 14 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 321 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 271946
TORJAN
MSC121-272030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
144 PM CST SUN MAR 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...RANKIN COUNTY
 
AT 144 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THE JACKSON AREA MOVING
EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 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.
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 9:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	27 min
Mar 26, 9:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	18 min
Mar 26, 9:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	58 min
Mar 27, 10:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	42 min
Mar 27, 11:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	36 min
Mar 27, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	28 min
Mar 27, 12:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	52 min
Mar 27, 12:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sunflower	25 min
Mar 27, 12:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	29 min
Mar 27, 12:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leflore	36 min
Mar 27, 1:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	41 min
Mar 27, 1:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	39 min
Mar 27, 2:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	42 min
Mar 27, 2:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	39 min
Mar 27, 2:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	43 min
Mar 27, 2:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba	51 min
Mar 27, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	32 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.