Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 111, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 27, 1999, 6:04 PM CST for Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 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
- Feb 27, 1999, 6:04 PM CST (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1999, 6:55 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Smith County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 6:22 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 280004 RRA TORJAN MSC129-280055- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 604 PM CST SAT FEB 27 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SMITH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 655 PM CST * AT 603 PM CST... RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RALEIGH OR 7 MILES WEST OF MIZE... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE... MIZE AT 610 PM CST TAYLORSVILLE AT 620 PM CST IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 68
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton, Scott | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 51 min |
| Feb 27, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 50 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.