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Tornado Warning 78, NWS Jackson, MS

October 25, 1997Leflore County, Sunflower County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT for Leflore County, Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 25, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Leflore County, MS, Sunflower County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 25, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Oct 25, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 2580 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 8.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 252332 RRA
TORJAN
MSC083-133-260000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
630 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...NORTHERN LEFLORE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...EASTERN SUNFLOWER COUNTY
 
AT 630 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST EAST OF DODDSVILLE
MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST 30 MPH. A STATE TROOPER REPORTED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO IN THE DODDSVILLE AREA. THIS STORM WILL MOVE TOWARD THE MINTER
CITY AREA.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN AN
INTERI>OR 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, 3:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	42 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.