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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Jackson, MS

April 22, 1996Attala County, Choctaw County, Winston County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1996, 10:13 PM CDT for Attala County, Choctaw County, Winston County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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, 10:13 PM CDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Winston County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 22, 10:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Louisville, MS
Apr 22, 10:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ackerman, 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 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 853 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 230312
TORJAN
MSC007-019-159-230400-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1013 PM CDT MON APR 22 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...EASTERN ATTALA COUNTY...CHOCTAW COUNTY
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...WINSTON COUNTY
 
AT 1010 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 19 AND 25 MOVING NORTHEAST ALONG HIGHWAY 25
TOWARD LOUISVILLE. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS NEAR ETHEL MOVING
NORTHEAST TOWARD FRENCH CAMP.
 
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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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

Local storm report, Apr 22, 8:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
806 PM CDT MON APR 22 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0445 PM    MOUND                     LA   WIND DAMAGE
04/22/96   MADISON                        TREES DOWN AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWN IN EASTERN MADISON
                                          PARISH.

0453 PM    VICKSBURG                 MS   66 MPH TSTM GUST
04/22/96   WARREN                         ASOS REPORTED WIND GUSTS
                                          OF 66 MPH.

0615 PM    BOLTON                    MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/22/96   HINDS                          QUARTER AND GOLFBALL SIZE
                                          HAIL.

0737 PM    YOKENA                    MS   .5 INCH HAIL
04/22/96   WARREN                         MARBLE SIZE HAIL.

0744 PM    YAZOO CITY                MS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/96   YAZOO                          DIME SIZE HAIL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	45 min
Apr 22, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	33 min
Apr 22, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Warren	34 min
Apr 22, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	30 min
Apr 22, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds	37 min
Apr 22, 8:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Yazoo	48 min
Apr 22, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	67 min
Apr 22, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	30 min
Apr 22, 9:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	52 min
Apr 22, 9:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah	27 min
Apr 22, 9:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	34 min
Apr 22, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	46 min
Apr 22, 9:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	47 min
Apr 22, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	42 min
Apr 22, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson	49 min
Apr 22, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	49 min
Apr 22, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	30 min
Apr 22, 10:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	40 min
Apr 22, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	38 min
Apr 22, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	42 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.