Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 26, 1996, 4:25 PM CST for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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 26, 1996, 4:25 PM CST (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 1996, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 439 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 532 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 262225 TORJAN MSC091-262315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 425 PM CST FRI JAN 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...MARION COUNTY AT 424 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KOKOMO MOVING NORTHEAT AT 40 MPH. THIS MOTION WILL TAKE THE STORM NEAR KOKOMO AND NORTH OF COLUMBIA BY 450 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE 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
Local storm report, Jan 26, 3:59 PM CST, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
346 PM CST FRI JAN 26 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION......
0255 PM COLUMBIA MS WIND DAMAGE
01/26/96 MARION TREES DOWN NEAR THE COLUMBIA
AIRPORT.
0305 PM 5 W LAUREL MS .75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96 JONES 5 MI WEST OF LAUREL ON
HIGHWAY 84. REPORTED BY
LAUREL JONES CD.
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0315 PM SANDERSVILLE MS .50 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96 JONES
0320 PM BROOKHAVEN MS .50 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96 LINCOLN AT INTERSTATE 55 AND HIGHWAY
84 SOUTH OF BROOKHAVEN.
0325 PM MOSELLE MS .50 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96 JONES AT INTERSTATE 59 NEAR
MOSELLE.
0330 PM ELLISVILLE MS 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96 JONES NEAR THE ELLISVILLE CITY
LIMITS NEAR HIGHWAY 29.
0330 PM NORTH OF BRANDON MS FLOODING
01/26/96 RANKIN NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED IN
RANKIN COUNTY... WATER CLOSE
TO ENTERING SOME HOMES OFF
COON HUNTER'S ROAD.
0332 PM LAUREL MS .88 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96 JONES NICKEL TO DIME SIZE HAIL AT
THE EOC BUILDING IN LAUREL.
0344 PM MELBA MS 1.0 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96 JEFFERSON DAVIS QUARTER TO DIME SIZE HAIL
AT MELBA.
0349PM LAUREL MS .75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
01/26/96 JONES 12 MILES EAST OF LAURELThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 6:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 29 min |
| Jan 26, 6:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 45 min |
| Jan 26, 7:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 45 min |
| Jan 26, 7:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 42 min |
| Jan 26, 11:51 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 2 hr |
| Jan 26, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 41 min |
| Jan 26, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 50 min |
| Jan 26, 1:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 47 min |
| Jan 26, 2:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 115 min |
| Jan 26, 2:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba, Scott | 85 min |
| Jan 26, 2:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 58 min |
| Jan 26, 2:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 66 min |
| Jan 26, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar | 45 min |
| Jan 26, 3:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington | 41 min |
| Jan 26, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 45 min |
| Jan 26, 3:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Rankin, Scott | 3 hr |
| Jan 26, 3:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds | 3 hr |
| Jan 26, 4:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 40 min |
| Jan 26, 4:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 49 min |
| Jan 26, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 43 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.