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Tornado Warning 133, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1995, 2:47 PM CDT for Claiborne County, Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Claiborne County, MS, Hinds County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 081949 TORJAN MSC049-021-082030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 247 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...WESTERN HINDS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...EASTERN CLAIBORNE COUNTY AT 245 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HERMANVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING NEAR THE UTICA AREA BY 310 PM. 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, May 8, 10:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
MSZ001>082-090400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE. A SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE TO PRODUCE THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IT APPEARS AS THOUGH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN TYPE OF SEVERE WEATHER ENCOUNTERED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...HOWEVER THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES ALSO EXISTS. CIVIL DEFENSE...HAM AND SPOTTER A&CTIVATION FOR WEATHER WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 12:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 42 min |
| May 8, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 31 min |
| May 8, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 32 min |
| May 8, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 53 min |
| May 8, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 53 min |
| May 8, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 54 min |
| May 8, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 42 min |
| May 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 43 min |
| May 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 43 min |
| May 8, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Smith | 47 min |
| May 8, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 44 min |
| May 8, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 48 min |
| May 8, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 44 min |
| May 8, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 54 min |
| May 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Lamar | 51 min |
| May 8, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 52 min |
| May 8, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 43 min |
| May 8, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 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.