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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jackson, MS

January 27, 1997Leflore County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 27, 1997, 8:29 PM CST for Leflore County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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 27, 1997, 8:29 PM CST (02:29 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1997, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Leflore County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 27, 8:38 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Greenwood, 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
Jan 27, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 801 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 6.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 280229 RRA
TORJAN
MSC083-280300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
829 PM CST MON JAN 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...LEFLORE COUNTY
 
AT 827 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
GREENWOOD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS MOTION WILL TAKE
THE STORM JUST SOUTH OF GREENWOOD BY 845 PM.
 
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
Jan 27, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	52 min
Jan 27, 6:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	37 min
Jan 27, 7:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	53 min
Jan 27, 7:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	37 min
Jan 27, 8:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore	44 min
Jan 27, 8:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll	34 min
Jan 27, 8:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Montgomery	49 min
Jan 27, 9:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	40 min
Jan 27, 9:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Webster	51 min
Jan 27, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	46 min
Jan 27, 10:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	37 min
Jan 27, 11:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	37 min
Jan 27, 11:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	53 min
Jan 27, 11:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	53 min
Jan 27, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds	35 min
Jan 28, 12:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson	69 min
Jan 28, 12:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	41 min
Jan 28, 1:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	36 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.