Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 18, 1996, 8:13 AM CST for Humphreys County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1996, 8:13 AM CST (14:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1996, 8:45 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Humphreys County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 481 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 181414 TORJAN MSC053-181445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 813 AM CST THU JAN 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...HUMPHREYS COUNTY AT 8 14 AM CST THE JACKSON RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST EAST OF LOUISE IN SOUTHERN HUMPHREYS COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. ON ITS PRESENT PATH THIS TORNADO WILL BE MOVING SOUTHEAST OF MIDNIGHT AND SILVER CITY WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR APARTMENT. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD FROM rFLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS OR PILLOWS. <
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, Jan 18, 5:00 AM CST, 3 hours 13 minutes before
MSZ001>082-190000- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 500 AM CST THU JAN 18 1996 ...RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TODAY... A STRONG COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE TODAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL COMBINE WITH THE WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS OVER THE STATE TO PRODUCE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...WITH DAMAGING WIND BEING THE MAIN THREAT. HOWEVER...TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE FROM THE WEST LATER THIS AFTERNOON. STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION TODAY.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 5:04 AM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before
MSZ001>082-190000- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 500 AM CST THU JAN 18 1996 ...RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TODAY... A STRONG COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE TODAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL COMBINE WITH THE WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS OVER THE STATE TO PRODUCE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...WITH DAMAGING WIND BEING THE MAIN THREAT. HOWEVER...TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE FROM THE WEST LATER THIS AFTERNOON. STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE TODAY.
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 5:13 AM CST, 3 hours before
MSZ001>082-190000- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 500 AM CST THU JAN 18 1996 ...RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TODAY... A STRONG COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... WILL MOVE THROUGH THE STATE TODAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL COMBINE WITH THE WARM AND MOIST AIRMASS OVER THE STATE TO PRODUCE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI...WITH DAMAGING WIND BEING THE MAIN THREAT. HOWEVER...TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE FROM THE WEST LATER THIS AFTERNOON. STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 8:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 48 min |
| Jan 18, 3:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton, Scott | 53 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.