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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Jackson, MS

April 11, 1995Covington County, Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 1995, 6:00 AM CDT for Covington County, Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 11, 1995, 6:00 AM CDT (11:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 1995, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Covington County, MS, Jones County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -351 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 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 111101
TORJAN
MSC067-031-111130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
600 AM CDT TUE APR 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...JONES COUNTY
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...COVINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 556AM JACKSON RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
SEMINARY MOVING EAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE
ACROSS COVINGTON .. JONES COUNTY LINE SHORTLY AFTER 600AM AND MOVE NORTH
OF MOSELLE BEFORE 615AM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IjN AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET UNDER STURDY FURNITURE.
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
Apr 11, 2:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	48 min
Apr 11, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	47 min
Apr 11, 3:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	37 min
Apr 11, 3:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lincoln	30 min
Apr 11, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	31 min
Apr 11, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	44 min
Apr 11, 4:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	47 min
Apr 11, 4:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	35 min
Apr 11, 4:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson	45 min
Apr 11, 4:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore	42 min
Apr 11, 5:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lawrence	29 min
Apr 11, 5:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	42 min
Apr 11, 5:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	48 min
Apr 11, 5:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	37 min
Apr 11, 6:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	37 min
Apr 11, 6:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Jones	31 min
Apr 11, 6:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	47 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.