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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Jackson, MS

February 24, 2007Chicot County, Arkansas; Washington County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2007, 5:17 PM CST for Chicot County, Arkansas; Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 58 min. 4 reports 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: Feb 24, 2007, 5:17 PM CST (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2007, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Chicot County, AR, Washington County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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
Feb 24, 5:30 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	4 Sw Greenville, MS	POWER LINES DOWN ALONG HWY 82 BEFORE THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE.
Feb 24, 5:30 PM CST	HAIL 0.75	7 N Greenville, MS	PENNY HAIL REPORTED IN WINTERVILLE.
Feb 24, 5:35 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	1 S Greenville, MS	ROOF/STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. METAL CARPORT DESTROYED AND IS 30 FEET UP IN A TREE. POWER LINES DOWN. CHIMNEY BLOWN OFF MOBILE HOME. TREES DOWN AND UPROOTED.
Feb 24, 5:35 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Greenville, MS	ROOF/STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. MINOR ROOF DAMAGE TO HOTEL ON HWY 82 E IN GREENVILLE. TREES DOWN.

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

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 24, 1:10 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 352 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 242317
TORJAN
ARC017-MSC151-250015-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0017.070224T2317Z-070225T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
517 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LELAND...HOLLANDALE...GREENVILLE
  CHICOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 517 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF
  GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 75 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HOLLANDALE...
  GREENVILLE...
  METCALFE AND
  LELAND.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...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 3354 9076 3329 9078 3315 9069 3315 9069
      3315 9086 3306 9093 3307 9112 3317 9115
      3313 9110 3329 9102 3327 9109 3335 9112
      3346 9104 3340 9116 3346 9119 3349 9109
      3353 9114

$$

GARRETT

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KJAN 242334
SVSJAN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
534 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007

ARC017-MSC151-250015-
/O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-070225T0015Z/
CHICOT AR-WASHINGTON MS-
534 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR
WASHINGTON AND CHICOT COUNTIES...

AT 534 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GREENVILLE...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 75 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HOLLANDALE...ARCOLA...METCALFE AND LELAND

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...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 3354 9076 3329 9078 3315 9069 3315 9069
      3315 9086 3306 9093 3307 9112 3317 9115
      3313 9110 3329 9102 3327 9109 3335 9112
      3346 9104 3340 9116 3346 9119 3349 9109
      3353 9114

$$

GARRETT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 3:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley	28 min
Feb 24, 4:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley	57 min
Feb 24, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Chicot	52 min
Feb 24, 5:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley	27 min
Feb 24, 3:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	28 min
Feb 24, 4:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin	22 min
Feb 24, 4:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	33 min
Feb 24, 5:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar	44 min
Feb 24, 5:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower	29 min
Feb 24, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar	30 min
Feb 24, 5:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower	33 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.