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Tornado Warning 67, NWS Jackson, MS

May 28, 1996Adams County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1996, 10:20 PM CDT for Adams County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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: May 28, 1996, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Adams County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 290323
TORJAN
MSC001-290400-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1020 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...ADAMS COUNTY
 
AT 1019 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES
NORTHEAST OF NATCHEZ MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
MOVE THROUGH THE WASHINGTON AND NATCHEZ AREAS BY 1050 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 MOdBILE 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, 5 hours 6 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, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	59 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, 10:30 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.