Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 1994, 9:42 PM CST for Leake County, Mississippi. It was in force for 18 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 1994, 9:42 PM CST (03:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 1994, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leake County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 989 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 270345 TORJAN MSC079-270400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 942 PM CST SAT MAR 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHWESTERN LEAKE COUNTY AT 935 PM A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR IN NORTHWEST LEAKE COUNTY...JUST SOUTH OF THOMASTOWN...MOVING NORTHE AST AT 50 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. <
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, 9:47 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, 1:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 46 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 |
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.