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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS

March 13, 2006Montgomery County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 2006, 1:43 PM CST for Montgomery County, Mississippi. It was in force for 17 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2006, 1:43 PM CST (19:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2006, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montgomery County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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
Mar 13, 1:50 PM CST	TORNADO 0	10 Ne Winona, MS	TRACKED 1.5 MILES ENE. DAMAGE LIMITED TO DOWNED TREES.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 3.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 131943
TORJAN
MSC097-132000-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0013.060313T1943Z-060313T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
143 PM CST MON MAR 13 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 200 PM CST

* AT 143 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO BETWEEN       
  DUCK HILL AND WINONA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

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

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 3366 8976 3345 8972 3351 8951 3367 8951

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 1:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	25 min
Mar 13, 1:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	34 min
Mar 13, 1:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Webster	49 min
Mar 13, 2:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clay, Webster	47 min
Mar 13, 4:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha	63 min
Mar 13, 4:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	33 min
Mar 13, 4:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lowndes	18 min
Mar 13, 5:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.