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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jackson, MS

January 15, 1997Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 15, 1997, 5:07 PM CST for Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 53 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: Jan 15, 1997, 5:07 PM CST (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Jan 15, 1997, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Jones County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 15, 5:25 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Laurel, 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 356 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 152308 RRA
TORJAN
MSC067-160000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
507 PM CST WED JAN 15 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...JONES COUNTY
 
AT 507 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAUREL
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM W4ILL MOVE NEAR LAUREL
BY 520 PM.
 
SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR APARTMENT.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD FROM FLYING
DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS OR PILLOWS.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 15, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	28 min
Jan 15, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	25 min
Jan 15, 4:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	41 min
Jan 15, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	46 min
Jan 15, 5:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	50 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.