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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Jackson, MS

April 27, 1997Forrest County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 1997, 7:07 AM CDT for Forrest 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: Apr 27, 1997, 7:07 AM CDT (12:07 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1997, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Forrest County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 27, 7:15 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hattiesburg, MS	Several trees were blown down.

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
Apr 27, 4:15 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -153 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 462 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 568 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 271209 RRA
TORJAN
MSC035-271300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
707 AM CDT SUN APR 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...FORREST COUNTY
 
AT 705 AM...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF
HATTIESBURG. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AND WILL TRACK JUST NORTH OF
HATTIESBURG.
 
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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	39 min
Apr 27, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	40 min
Apr 27, 1:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Smith	39 min
Apr 27, 2:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams	3 hr
Apr 27, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	31 min
Apr 27, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	43 min
Apr 27, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	47 min
Apr 27, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	33 min
Apr 27, 4:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	42 min
Apr 27, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	35 min
Apr 27, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	44 min
Apr 27, 6:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	42 min
Apr 27, 6:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	37 min
Apr 27, 6:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	46 min
Apr 27, 7:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	27 min
Apr 27, 9:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds	2 hr
Apr 27, 11:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	3 hr
Apr 27, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	48 min
Apr 27, 1:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lincoln	3 hr
Apr 27, 2:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	2 hr
Apr 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton, Smith	105 min
Apr 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Neshoba	105 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.