Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 106, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 27, 1999, 5:12 PM CST for Franklin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports 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
- Feb 27, 1999, 5:12 PM CST (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1999, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 5:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Meadville, MS | Several trees were blown down. |
| Feb 27, 5:15 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Meadville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KJAN 272311 RRA TORJAN MSC037-272345- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 512 PM CST SAT FEB 27 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 545 PM CST * AT 511 PM CST... RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MEADVILLE OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF BUDE... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND RURAL AREAS. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR 68
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 1:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 3:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 3:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 3:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Simpson | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 51 min |
| Feb 27, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 51 min |
| Feb 27, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery, Webster | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 4:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 4:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 4:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 4:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 5:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Oktibbeha, Winston | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 5:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 51 min |
| Feb 27, 5:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 5:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 33 min |
| Feb 27, 5:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Simpson | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 5:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 32 min |
| Feb 27, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 5:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington | 51 min |
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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.