Tornado Warning 38, NWS Jackson, MS

Issued

Apr 13, 1996, 3:16 AM CDT (08:16 UTC)

Expired

Apr 13, 1996, 4:00 AM CDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Jackson, MS

Area

Whole counties

County Jefferson Davis County, 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.

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TTAA00 KJAN 130819
TORJAN
MSC065-130900-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
316 AM CDT SAT APR 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY
 
AT 315 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BASSFIELD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH
AND WILL APPROACH BASSFIELD BY 330 AM.
 
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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In the hours before

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MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
940 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN WESTERN MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT...

THE FIRST OF POSSIBLY THREE WEATHER SYSTEMS TO AFFECT MISSISSIPPI WILL
MOVE IN FROM THE WEST LATE TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD
FORM OVER WESTERN MISSISSIPPI AFTER MIDNIGHT AND MOVE AS FAR EAST AS
ROUGHLY INTERSTATE 55 BY MORNING. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL
SEND THIS FIRST ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE REGION. THE PRIMARY TYPE
OF SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD COME FROM LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS.

A VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION
SATURDAY WITH MORE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT. THE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORM THREATS MAY COME SATURDAY EVENING AND AGAIN SUNDAY AFTER-
NOON AS A COLD FRONT SWINGS INTO THE PICTURE.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...HAM RADIO AND SPOTTER PERSONNEL WILL PROBABLY BE
NEEDED FOR HELP IN SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION AT SOME POINT THROUGH THE
WEEKEND. RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP IN TOUCH WITH LATER WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS
AS THESE SPRING STORMS CROSS THE MAGNOLIA STATE.

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996

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.