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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Jackson, MS

March 30, 1996Issaquena County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 1996, 9:23 PM CST for Issaquena County, Mississippi. It was in force for 67 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 30, 1996, 9:23 PM CST (03:23 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 1996, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Issaquena County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 310325
TORJAN
MSC055-310430-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
923 PM CST SAT MAR 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...ISSAQUENA COUNTY
 
AT 925 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FITLER...MOVING EAST AT 3H5 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
PASS INTO WESTERN ISSAQUENA COUNTY BY 940 PM.
 
SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM 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, 9:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	43 min
Mar 30, 9:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Warren	68 min
Mar 30, 9:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	49 min
Mar 30, 10:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	50 min
Mar 30, 10:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	44 min
Mar 30, 11:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	43 min
Mar 30, 11:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	36 min
Mar 30, 11:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	33 min
Mar 30, 11:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	41 min
Mar 31, 12:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	25 min
Mar 31, 12:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	54 min
Mar 31, 12:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	51 min
Mar 31, 12:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	54 min
Mar 31, 12:51 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Smith	54 min
Mar 31, 1:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	41 min
Mar 31, 1:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	47 min
Mar 31, 1:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	51 min
Mar 31, 1:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	53 min
Mar 31, 1:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	63 min
Mar 31, 3:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	30 min
Mar 31, 3:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	47 min
Mar 31, 4:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	45 min
Mar 31, 5:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	30 min

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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.