Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 19, 1996, 2:26 PM CST for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 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
- Feb 19, 1996, 2:26 PM CST (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 1996, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forrest County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 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
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 192025 TORJAN MSC035-192100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 226 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN FORREST COUNTY AT 225 PM CST FORREST COUNTY EOC REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR CARNES. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR BROOKLYN BY 240 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. < &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 49 min |
| Feb 19, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 30 min |
| Feb 19, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 25 min |
| Feb 19, 2:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott | 53 min |
| Feb 19, 2:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 41 min |
| Feb 19, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Feb 19, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 53 min |
| Feb 19, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 45 min |
| Feb 19, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 41 min |
| Feb 19, 3:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 37 min |
| Feb 19, 4:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 36 min |
| Feb 19, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Feb 19, 4:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 40 min |
| Feb 19, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.