Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 25, 1994, 12:35 AM CST for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 1994, 12:35 AM CST (06:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1994, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forrest County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 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
- 2299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 250637 TORJAN MSC035-250700- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1235 AM CST FRI MAR 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN FORREST COUNTY AT 1233 AM...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED NEAR THE LAMAR...FORREST COUNTY LINE...EAST OF LUMBERTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN BROOKLYN SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. 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, Mar 24, 10:18 PM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
MSZALL-250100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1015 PM CST THU MAR 24 1994 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 35 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. HOWEVER A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Amite, Pike | 40 min |
| Mar 24, 7:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 39 min |
| Mar 24, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Pike | 45 min |
| Mar 24, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Wilkinson | 29 min |
| Mar 24, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Amite, Wilkinson | 31 min |
| Mar 24, 11:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Pike | 32 min |
| Mar 24, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Pike, Walthall | 46 min |
| Mar 25, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 12:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 34 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.