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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 21, 1997, 4:05 AM CST for Leake County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 min. 4 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
- Feb 21, 1997, 4:05 AM CST (10:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1997, 4:45 AM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leake County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 4:10 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage, MS | |
| Feb 21, 4:10 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Lena, MS | |
| Feb 21, 4:10 AM CST | Hail 1 | Carthage, MS | |
| Feb 21, 4:10 AM CST | Tornado F2 | Walnut Grove, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 11:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
958 WFUS1 KJAN 211007 RRA TORJAN MSC079-211045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 405 AM CST FRI FEB 21 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...LEAKE COUNTY AT 405 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH OF CARTHAGE MISSISSIPPI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN CARTHAGE AND WALNUT GROVE BY 430 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. < 68
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 1:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 1:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Jefferson | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 2:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 59 min |
| Feb 21, 2:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 40 min |
| Feb 21, 2:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 47 min |
| Feb 21, 2:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 61 min |
| Feb 21, 2:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Feb 21, 2:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 57 min |
| Feb 21, 3:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 42 min |
| Feb 21, 3:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 52 min |
| Feb 21, 3:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 54 min |
| Feb 21, 3:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 56 min |
| Feb 21, 3:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 44 min |
| Feb 21, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake, Montgomery | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 4:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Webster | 46 min |
| Feb 21, 4:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 43 min |
| Feb 21, 4:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 40 min |
| Feb 21, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 45 min |
| Feb 21, 4:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 4:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 38 min |
| Feb 21, 4:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 48 min |
| Feb 21, 5:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 31 min |
| Feb 21, 5:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 52 min |
| Feb 21, 5:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Smith | 47 min |
| Feb 21, 6:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 48 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.