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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 1996Lawrence County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 1996, 11:03 PM CST for Lawrence County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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: Mar 5, 1996, 11:03 PM CST (05:03 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 1996, 11:30 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Lawrence County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 060503
TORJAN
MSC077-060530-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1103 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 1102 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 9 MILES
SOUTH OF MONTICELLO MOVING NORTHEAST 40 MPH. THE tSTORM WILL BE NEAR OAK
VALE BY 1115 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.
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 8:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	46 min
Mar 5, 9:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	44 min
Mar 5, 9:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	25 min
Mar 5, 9:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	49 min
Mar 5, 10:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	49 min
Mar 5, 11:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	36 min
Mar 5, 11:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	42 min
Mar 5, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Lamar	50 min
Mar 5, 11:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	50 min
Mar 6, 12:30 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	30 min
Mar 6, 1:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	30 min
Mar 6, 1:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	39 min
Mar 6, 1:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	28 min
Mar 6, 1:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	39 min
Mar 6, 2:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	38 min
Mar 6, 5:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	44 min
Mar 6, 5:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	47 min
Mar 6, 5:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	49 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.