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Tornado Warning 148, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1995, 8:17 PM CDT for Attala County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Attala County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 2464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 050119 TORJAN MSC007-050200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 817 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHWESTERN ATTALA COUNTY JACKSON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A PROBABLE TORNADO APPROACHING DURANT MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWESTERN ATTALA COUNTY JUST EAST OF DURANT. THIS TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED BOTH ALOFT AND ON THE GROUND AND IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD TAKE SHELTER NOW. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST dPLACE 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, Jul 4, 4:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
MSZ042>066-072-073-042200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 403 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 702 CANCELLED FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT NORTH OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...WARREN...YAZOO...MADISON...LEAKE ...NESHOBA AND KEMPER. THESE COUNTIES AND ALL COUNTIES TO THE SOUTH IN MISSISSIPPI ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THIS AFTERNOON. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED NORTH INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN OVER NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA WHICH COULD MOVE INTO THE DELTA COUNTIES OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BY 5 PM THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
MSZ042>066-072-073-042200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 403 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 702 CANCELLED FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT NORTH OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...WARREN...YAZOO...MADISON...LEAKE ...NESHOBA AND KEMPER. THESE COUNTIES AND ALL COUNTIES TO THE SOUTH IN MISSISSIPPI ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THIS AFTERNOON. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED NORTH INTO NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN OVER NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA WHICH COULD MOVE INTO THE DELTA COUNTIES OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BY 5 PM THIS EVENIN6G.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 16 min |
| Jul 4, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 40 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.