Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2005

Tornado Warning 356, NWS Jackson, MS

January 13, 2005Webster County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 13, 2005, 5:59 AM CST for Webster County, Mississippi. It was in force for 61 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: Jan 13, 2005, 5:59 AM CST (11:59 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2005, 7:00 AM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Webster County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 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.

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 13, 2:25 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 991 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 131159
TORJAN
MSC155-131300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
559 AM CST THU JAN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 700 AM CST

* AT 559 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES        
  SOUTHWEST OF EUPORA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  EUPORA BY 610 AM CST

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR
HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER
YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3349 8944 3348 8937 3354 8920 3359 8903
      3374 8904 3372 8930

$$

CME

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 2:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	35 min
Jan 13, 3:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	49 min
Jan 13, 4:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	28 min
Jan 13, 4:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	10 min
Jan 13, 4:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	73 min
Jan 13, 4:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	56 min
Jan 13, 5:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	53 min
Jan 13, 5:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	65 min
Jan 13, 5:52 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Montgomery	38 min
Jan 13, 6:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	30 min
Jan 13, 6:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	39 min
Jan 13, 6:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	52 min
Jan 13, 6:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	38 min
Jan 13, 6:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	66 min
Jan 13, 6:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	50 min
Jan 13, 6:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	45 min
Jan 13, 6:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	29 min
Jan 13, 6:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	52 min
Jan 13, 7:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee	58 min
Jan 13, 7:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	39 min
Jan 13, 7:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	52 min
Jan 13, 7:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	59 min
Jan 13, 7:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	65 min
Jan 13, 7:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	60 min
Jan 13, 7:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	53 min
Jan 13, 7:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	48 min
Jan 13, 7:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	18 min
Jan 13, 7:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	59 min
Jan 13, 8:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jones	2 hr
Jan 13, 8:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	53 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2005 Every tornado warning in 2005 Tornadoes in 2005

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.