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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Jackson, MS

January 30, 1996Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 30, 1996, 5:27 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 30, 1996, 5:27 PM CST (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Jan 30, 1996, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 30, 5:35 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Meridian, MS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 194 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 302328
TORJAN
MSC075-310000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
527 PM CST TUE JAN 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...LAUDERDALE COUNTY
 
AT 526 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN JACKSON
INDICATED A TORNADO DEVELOPING JUST WEST OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND THE CITIES OF MERIDIAN AND MARION
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
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 30, 4:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	51 min
Jan 30, 5:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.