Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 18, 1996, 2:07 PM CST for Rankin County, Simpson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 53 min. 3 reports 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 18, 1996, 2:07 PM CST (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1996, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rankin County, MS, Simpson County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Star, MS | |
| Mar 18, 2:16 PM CST | Hail 1 | Florence, MS | |
| Mar 18, 2:20 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Harrisville, 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 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 182008 TORJAN MSC121-127-182100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 207 PM CST MON MAR 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN RANKIN COUNTY...NORTHERN SIMPSON COUNTY AT 207 PM CST JACKSON RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO ALONG THE HINDS-COPIAH COUNTY LINE 5 MILES SOUTH OF TERRY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SEVERAL REPORTS OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THIS STORM AND A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR GALLMAN. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL MOVE BETFWEEN FLORENCE AND HARRISVILLE BY 225 PM CST. 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
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 9:56 AM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes before
MSZ001>082-190400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CST MON MAR 18 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY TO ERUPT TODAY...LARGE HAIL MAIN THREAT.. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT LOCATED OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TODAY TRIGGERING WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUDNERSTORMS... SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO REQUEST THE ASSISTANCE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND OTHERS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN PUBLIC SAFETY EFFORTS FOR SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. A TORNADO WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR WEST CETNRAL MISSISSIPPI AND WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED EAST AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS DEVEL`OPING SPRING STORM SYSTEM.
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 10:00 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
MSZ001>082-190400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CST MON MAR 18 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY TO ERUPT TODAY...LARGE HAIL MAIN THREAT.. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT LOCATED OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TODAY TRIGGERING WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUDNERSTORMS... SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO REQUEST THE ASSISTANCE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND OTHERS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN PUBLIC SAFETY EFFORTS FOR SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. A TORNADO WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR WEST CETNRAL MISSISSIPPI AND WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED EAST AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING SPRING STORM SYSTEM.
Local storm report, Mar 18, 1:16 PM CST, 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
114 PM CST MON MAR 18 1996
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION...... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION......
1230 PM 10 NW BASTROP LA .75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
03/18/96 MOREHOUSE REPORTED BY GEORGIA PACIFIC
0108 PM ALCORN STATE UNIV MS .75 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
03/18/96 CLAIBORNE
0111 PM LEXINGTON MS .88 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
03/18/96 HOLMES REPORTED BY RADIO STATIONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 1:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 34 min |
| Mar 18, 8:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 49 min |
| Mar 18, 11:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 38 min |
| Mar 18, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 32 min |
| Mar 18, 1:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 25 min |
| Mar 18, 1:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 48 min |
| Mar 18, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 32 min |
| Mar 18, 2:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 2:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Mar 18, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 34 min |
| Mar 18, 2:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 27 min |
| Mar 18, 2:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 48 min |
| Mar 18, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Lamar | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 3:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 49 min |
| Mar 18, 4:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 53 min |
| Mar 18, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jasper, Jones | 46 min |
| Mar 18, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 46 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.