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Tornado Warning 137, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT for Claiborne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Claiborne County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 698 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 182118 TORJAN MSC021-182200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 415 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...CLAIBORNE COUNTY AT 415 PM DOPPLER WEATHER ARADR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF PORT GIBSON. THE TORNADO IS MOVING nEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. 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 18, 12:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
MSZ001>082-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1215 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO. 435...ISSUED EARLIER TODAY FOR PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI...HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS THE STATE BUT NO ACTIVITY IS NEAR SEVERE LIMITS AT THIS TIME. THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY AND COVERAGE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES CLOSER TO THE STATE. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AS THIS SITUATION DEVELOPS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 41 min |
| May 18, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Warren | 42 min |
| May 18, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 50 min |
| May 18, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 49 min |
| May 18, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 41 min |
| May 18, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 43 min |
| May 18, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 40 min |
| May 18, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 37 min |
| May 18, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 46 min |
| May 18, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 44 min |
| May 18, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 42 min |
| May 18, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 43 min |
| May 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 45 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.