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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 1996Marion County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 1996, 11:09 PM CST for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 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: Mar 5, 1996, 11:09 PM CST (05:09 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 1996, 11:45 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Marion County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 5, 11:15 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Morgantown, 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 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.

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: 1008 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 5.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 060510
TORJAN
MSC091-060545-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1109 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...MARION COUNTY
 
AT 1108 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MORGANTOWN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL CROSS
THE PEARL RIVER IN NORTHWEST MARION COUNTY BY 1120 PM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  MOVE QUICKLY TO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
AVOID WINDOWS.  LEAVE CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING.
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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, 11:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lawrence	27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.