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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Jackson, MS

March 7, 1995Warren County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 1995, 3:33 AM CST for Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 1995, 3:33 AM CST (09:33 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 1995, 4:00 AM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Warren County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 1231 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 070935
TORJAN
MSC149-071000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
333 AM CST TUE MAR 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...WARREN COUNTY
 
AT 328 AM...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR APPROXIMATELY
EIGHT MILES EAST OF SOMERSET LOUISIANA...JUST CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE TOWARD ROUTE 61 BY 340 AM...AND MOVE
THROUGH SOUTH WARREN COUNTY BY 4AM.
 
 
 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO \A STRONG BUILDING.  IF
NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 6:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey	51 min
Mar 6, 6:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sharkey	47 min
Mar 6, 6:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	31 min
Mar 7, 3:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Yazoo	32 min
Mar 7, 6:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	36 min
Mar 7, 7:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	27 min
Mar 7, 8:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	32 min
Mar 7, 8:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	30 min
Mar 7, 8:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	36 min
Mar 7, 9:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	51 min
Mar 7, 9:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	53 min
Mar 7, 9:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	42 min
Mar 7, 9:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	51 min
Mar 7, 9:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Pike	47 min
Mar 7, 9:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Warren	44 min
Mar 7, 9:48 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lawrence	42 min
Mar 7, 9:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	54 min
Mar 7, 9:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	33 min
Mar 7, 10:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	45 min
Mar 7, 10:03 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	42 min
Mar 7, 10:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Pike	39 min
Mar 7, 10:09 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	36 min
Mar 7, 10:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	42 min
Mar 7, 10:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington	54 min
Mar 7, 10:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Smith	51 min
Mar 7, 10:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	44 min
Mar 7, 10:37 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	23 min
Mar 7, 10:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Scott	50 min
Mar 7, 10:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	63 min
Mar 7, 10:45 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	45 min
Mar 7, 10:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	55 min
Mar 7, 10:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Walthall	36 min
Mar 7, 11:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	30 min
Mar 7, 11:13 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Smith	47 min
Mar 7, 11:15 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	60 min
Mar 7, 11:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington	42 min
Mar 7, 11:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	54 min
Mar 7, 11:37 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton	68 min
Mar 7, 11:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys	52 min
Mar 7, 11:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	31 min
Mar 7, 11:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	67 min
Mar 7, 11:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes, Leflore	48 min
Mar 7, 12:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll	51 min
Mar 7, 12:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	32 min
Mar 7, 12:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	61 min
Mar 7, 12:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	13 min
Mar 7, 12:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	65 min
Mar 7, 12:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Wayne	62 min
Mar 7, 12:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	54 min
Mar 7, 12:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	64 min
Mar 7, 1:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	69 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.