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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1996, 4:23 PM CDT for Madison Parish, Louisiana; Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 min. 2 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
- Apr 22, 1996, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Madison Parish, LA, Warren County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Englewood, LA | |
| Apr 22, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Waltersville, 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 222124 TORJAN LAC065-MSC149-222215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 423 PM CDT MON APR 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ...SOUTHEASTERN MADISON PARISH IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...WARREN COUNTY JACKSON WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS POTENTIAL TORNADO WILL MOVE TO NEAR MOUND BY 440 PM... AND TO NEAR VICKSBURG BY 445 PM. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE` THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. <
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, Apr 22, 11:03 AM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
MSZ001>082-230400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1103 AM CDT MON APR 22 1996 ...MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A MCCOMB TO LAUREL TO COLUMBUS LINE FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT THIS MORNING WAS LOCATED ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI...EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST TEXAS. NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FIRED ALONG THE FRONT ACROSS TEXAS...OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN ARKANSAS LAST NIGHT. SOUTHERLY WINDS WERE TRANSPORTING ABUNDANT GULF MOISTURE NORTH ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY...AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME MORE UNSTABLE ACROSS THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE NORTHWEST HALF OF MISSISSIPPI WILL SEE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE STATE. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE. AT THE PRESENT TIME...IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...HAM RADIO AND SPOTTER PERSONNEL WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 45 min |
| Apr 22, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Warren, Yazoo | 47 min |
| Apr 22, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 26 min |
| Apr 22, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Yazoo | 53 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.