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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 5, 1994, 3:28 PM CST for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 1994, 3:28 PM CST (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 1994, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forrest County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 052130 TORJAN MSC035-052200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 328 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN FORREST COUNTY AT 328 PM CST A TORNADO WAS INDICATED 3 MILES NORTH OF HATTIESBURG MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR APARTMENT. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS OR PILLOWS. <
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, Nov 5, 9:52 AM CST, 5 hours 36 minutes before
MSZ001>082-060300- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 952 AM CDT SAT NOV 05 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 3 PM CST... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 2 PM CST TODAY... A STRONG STORM SYSTEM PUSHING INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES BRINGING THE THREAT OF MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. ALREADY...NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE...WITH DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS BEING REPORTED AT MANY LOCATIONS IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. WITH THE AIRMASS CONTINUING TO BECOME EVEN MORE UNSTABLE...AND A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SEE THE POTENTIAL OF FURTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER ALL BUT THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE STATE. RESIDENTS OVER NORTHERN...CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD KEEP A WEATHER EYE OUT TODAY FOR THE SIGNS OF THREATENING WEATHER. FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS...TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR COMMERCIAL RADIO. CIVIL DEFENSE SPOTTERS SHOULD KEEP IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THEIR LOCAL OFFICES TODAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED FOR MANY LOCATIONS ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TODAY.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 9:56 AM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes before
MSZ001>082-060300- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTED TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 952 AM CDT SAT NOV 05 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 3 PM CST... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 2 PM CST TODAY... A STRONG STORM SYSTEM PUSHING INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES BRINGING THE THREAT OF MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. ALREADY...NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE...WITH DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS BEING REPORTED AT MANY LOCATIONS IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. WITH THE AIRMASS CONTINUING TO BECOME EVEN MORE UNSTABLE...AND A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SEE THE POTENTIAL OF FURTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER ALL BUT THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE STATE. RESIDENTS OVER NORTHERN...CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD KEEP A WEATHER EYE OUT TODAY FOR THE SIGNS OF THREATENING WEATHER. FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS...TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELE4VISION OR COMMERCIAL RADIO. CIVIL DEFENSE SPOTTERS SHOULD KEEP IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THEIR LOCAL OFFICES TODAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED FOR MANY LOCATIONS ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TODAY.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 11:14 AM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
MSZ009-051915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 1114 AM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 AT 11 AM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 891 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSISSIPPI...PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN ALABAMA... A LINE OF RAINSHOWERS AND HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO INVADE THE STATE. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE OF WEATHER EXTENDS FROM TUPELO TO HOUSTON MS...TO WINONA TO VICKSBURG. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING HIGH WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. ELSEWHERE... RAINSHOWERS HAVE DEVELOPED IN FRONT OF THIS LINE FROM ACKERMAN TO PHILADELPHIA TO CARTHAGE AND ALSO IN NEWTON...NORTH JASPER AND NORTHWEST LAUDERDALE COUNTIES. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ARE PRODUCING SPEEDS UP TO 30 MPH WELL OUT IN FRONT OF THE RAIN AREAS. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR WARNINGS DUE TO HIGH WINDS TO BE ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 1:42 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
MSZ009-012-ALZ008-013-052145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS 142 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 892 REPLACES SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 891 AND REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH... CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 7 PM CST... AT 130 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MERIDIAN INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MISSISSIPI...MAINLY FROM MADISON TO KOSCIUSKO TO TUPELO. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING NORTH OF WALNUT GROVE AND SOUTH OF NEWTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE LINE AND OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO ADVANCD EASTWARD AT 30 MPH. WINDS IN ADVANCE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE STRONG AND FROM THE SOUTH. MERIDIAN WEATHER OFFICE HAS EXPERIENCED SOME GUSTS TO NEAR 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO STATION FOR FUTHER WATCHES AND WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 6:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 44 min |
| Nov 5, 7:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington | 47 min |
| Nov 5, 7:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Tallahatchie | 48 min |
| Nov 5, 8:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 48 min |
| Nov 5, 8:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 51 min |
| Nov 5, 8:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Leflore | 62 min |
| Nov 5, 8:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yalobusha | 62 min |
| Nov 5, 9:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Calhoun | 64 min |
| Nov 5, 9:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 68 min |
| Nov 5, 10:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 28 min |
| Nov 5, 11:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 53 min |
| Nov 5, 11:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 34 min |
| Nov 5, 12:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 50 min |
| Nov 5, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion, Walthall | 63 min |
| Nov 5, 2:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 69 min |
| Nov 5, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln, Pike | 48 min |
| Nov 5, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Walthall | 46 min |
| Nov 5, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 50 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.