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Tornado Warning 66, NWS Jackson, MS

May 28, 1996Claiborne County, Jefferson County, Mississippi; Tensas Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1996, 8:46 PM CDT for Claiborne County, Jefferson County, Mississippi; Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 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: May 28, 1996, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Tensas Parish, LA, Claiborne County, MS, Jefferson County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 9:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Gibson, 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 290149
TORJAN
LAC107-MSC063-021-290245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
846 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
 
   ...TENSAS PARISH
 
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...CLAIBORNE COUNTY
 
AT 847 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF ST. JOSEPH
LOUISIANA MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST NEAR 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE AFFECT
THE TOWNS OF THE ST JOSEPH...WATER PROOF...PORT GIBSON...AND LORMAN
THROUGH 920 PM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  MOVE QUICKLY TO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
AVOID WINDOWS.  LEAVE CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING.
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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, May 28, 5:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
513 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

1025 AM    KOSCIUSKO                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/96   ATTALA                         TREES DOWN ON POWERLINES

0420 PM    VICKSBURG                 MS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   WARREN

0454 PM    3 SE VICKSBURG            MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   WARREN

0455 PM    3 SE TALLULAH             LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   MADISON                        ALSO...TREES DOWNED...SOME
                                          ON HOUSES WITH DAMAGE
                                          REPORTED

0458 PM    5 E VICKSBURG             MS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/28/96   WARREN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	41 min
May 28, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	45 min
May 28, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	43 min
May 28, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones, Lamar	40 min
May 28, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	32 min
May 28, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	47 min
May 28, 10:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams	40 min
May 28, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	45 min
May 28, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	44 min
May 28, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	43 min
May 29, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	29 min
May 29, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	43 min
May 29, 2:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	53 min
May 28, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	39 min
May 28, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	41 min
May 28, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	67 min
May 28, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	41 min
May 28, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	67 min
May 28, 11:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Franklin, Richland	118 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.