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Tornado Warning 109, NWS Jackson, MS

April 20, 1995Madison Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 1995, 5:27 PM CDT for Madison Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 20, 1995, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Madison Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 20, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Mound, LA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 736 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 357 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 5.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 202228
TORJAN
LAC065-202315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
527 PM CDT THU APR 20 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
 
   ...MADISON PARISH
 
AT 525 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO FOUR MILES NORTHWEST OF
TALLULAH. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. IT WILL PASS NORTH OF
TALLULAH BY 545 PM.
 
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.
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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

Local storm report, Apr 20, 1:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
135 PM CDT THU APR 20 1995

TIME (CST)    LOCATION           REPORT

ESTIMATED
1236 PM CDT   N OF WAVERLY LA    TORNADO ON GROUND NORTH OF WAVERLY
              MADISON PARISH     REPORTED BY SHERIFF...BASEBALL SIZE
                                 HAIL ALSO.

1244 PM       5N ONWARD MS       PEA SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY HAM
              SHARKEY CO

130 PM        FITLER MS          TREES DOWN NEAR FITLER...REPORTED BY
              ISSAQUENA CO       HAM OPERATOR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 2:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Morehouse	52 min
Apr 20, 8:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula	43 min
Apr 20, 8:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Concordia	42 min
Apr 20, 8:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	31 min
Apr 20, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	45 min
Apr 20, 11:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	54 min
Apr 20, 12:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	52 min
Apr 20, 2:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Morehouse	48 min
Apr 20, 3:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Richland	50 min
Apr 20, 3:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	47 min
Apr 20, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Richland	41 min
Apr 20, 4:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula	31 min
Apr 20, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Tensas	48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.