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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Jackson, MS

January 6, 1995Attala County, Choctaw County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 6, 1995, 12:36 PM CST for Attala County, Choctaw County, Mississippi. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 6, 1995, 12:36 PM CST (18:36 UTC)
Expired: Jan 6, 1995, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 442 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 95 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 875 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 902 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 061838
TORJAN
MSC007-019-061930-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1236 PM CST FRI JAN 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...ATTALA COUNTY...CHOCTAW COUNTY
 
A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED BY RADAR JUST NORTHWEST OF ETHEL AT 1234
PM. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS STORM MAY PASS NEAR ETHEL...FRENCH CAMP...REFORM AND WEIR WITH A
VERY SHORT TIME.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET UNDER STURDY FURNITURjE.
USE PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR HEAD.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 6, 7:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	38 min
Jan 6, 8:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	43 min
Jan 6, 8:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tallahatchie	41 min
Jan 6, 9:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower, Washington	30 min
Jan 6, 9:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	36 min
Jan 6, 10:11 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	64 min
Jan 6, 10:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore	26 min
Jan 6, 11:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Amite	32 min
Jan 6, 11:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Amite, Lincoln, Pike	48 min
Jan 6, 12:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	33 min
Jan 6, 1:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba	58 min
Jan 6, 1:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba	55 min
Jan 6, 1:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	25 min
Jan 6, 1:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	49 min
Jan 6, 2:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw	28 min
Jan 6, 2:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	63 min
Jan 6, 2:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Wayne	40 min
Jan 6, 3:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Wayne	48 min

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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.