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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Jackson, MS

March 30, 1996Ashley County, Arkansas; Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 1996, 7:55 PM CST for Ashley County, Arkansas; Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 65 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 30, 1996, 7:55 PM CST (01:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 1996, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Ashley County, AR, Morehouse Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 30, 8:30 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Bastrop, LA

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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 310158
TORJAN
ARC003-LAC067-310300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
755 PM CST SAT MAR 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN ASHLEY COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
 
   ...MOREHOUSE PARISH
 
AT 752 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
SOUTHWEST ASHLEY COUNTY ARKANSAS AND NORTHWEST MOREHOUSE PARISH
LOUISIANA. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WAS OVER NORTHERN UNION PARISH
LOUISIANA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL
MOVE THROUGH GALION BY 830 PM. THEY SHOULD REACH THE BOEUF RIVER BY 9
PM.
 
RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ALONG THE ASHLEY COUNTY...MOREHOUSE
PARISH BORDER. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO
SOFTBALL SIZE AS WELL AS TORNADOES.
 
SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR R:OOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR APARTMENT.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD FROM FLYING
DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS OR PILLOWS.
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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 30, 6:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley	64 min
Mar 30, 9:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	54 min
Mar 30, 10:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	56 min
Mar 30, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	58 min
Mar 30, 8:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	58 min
Mar 30, 8:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	West Carroll	65 min
Mar 30, 8:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll	65 min
Mar 30, 9:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison, Richland	60 min
Mar 30, 9:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	51 min
Mar 30, 10:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison, Richland	45 min
Mar 30, 10:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	West Carroll	46 min
Mar 30, 10:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	49 min
Mar 30, 10:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	West Carroll	38 min
Mar 30, 11:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, West Carroll	51 min
Mar 30, 11:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	48 min
Mar 31, 12:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	43 min
Mar 31, 12:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	50 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1996 Tornado Warnings in Louisiana, 1996 Every tornado warning in 1996 Tornadoes in 1996

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.