Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2007, 5:18 PM CST for Ashley County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2007, 5:18 PM CST (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2007, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ashley County, AR
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KJAN 242317 RRA
TORJAN
ARC003-242345-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0018.070224T2318Z-070224T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
518 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ASHLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WILMOT
* UNTIL 545 PM CST
* AT 518 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WILMOT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 75 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WILMOT...
PARKDALE AND
PORTLAND.
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 3319 9159 3330 9146 3311 9146 3302 9146
3302 9171 3312 9165
$$
DHBThe 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, 5:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Chicot | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.