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Tornado Warning 76, NWS Jackson, MS

October 25, 1997Forrest County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 3:18 PM CDT for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 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: Oct 25, 1997, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 42 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 20:20 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
Oct 25, 3:32 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Carnes, 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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: 2541 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 486 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 12.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 252020 RRA
TORJAN
MSC035-252100-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
318 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...SOUTHERN FORREST COUNTY
 
AT 315 PM...JACKSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15
MILES SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
REACH THE BROOKLYN AREA BY 350 PM. PEOPLE IN THIS STORMS PATH SHOULD
TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!
 
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
Oct 25, 6:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	37 min
Oct 25, 6:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	36 min
Oct 25, 7:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	45 min
Oct 25, 7:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	34 min
Oct 25, 8:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Grenada	35 min
Oct 25, 11:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	39 min
Oct 25, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	53 min
Oct 25, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	52 min
Oct 25, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	35 min
Oct 25, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	41 min
Oct 25, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	45 min
Oct 25, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	30 min
Oct 25, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Webster	32 min
Oct 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower	30 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.