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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Jackson, MS

March 1, 2007Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 12:06 PM CST for Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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: Mar 1, 2007, 12:06 PM CST (18:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 2007, 12:30 PM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rankin County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Mar 1, 7:28 AM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 20 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: 985 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 312 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 9.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 011805
TORJAN
MSC121-011830-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0048.070301T1806Z-070301T1830Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1206 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1230 PM CST

* AT 1206 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF PELAHATCHIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PELAHATCHIE BY 1215 PM CST

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 3222 9004 3208 8996 3218 8974 3234 8974
      3249 8977

$$

CME

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 9:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Leflore	31 min
Mar 1, 9:47 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams	58 min
Mar 1, 10:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	40 min
Mar 1, 10:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	38 min
Mar 1, 10:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah	44 min
Mar 1, 10:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	38 min
Mar 1, 10:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	45 min
Mar 1, 10:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	51 min
Mar 1, 11:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	42 min
Mar 1, 11:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	56 min
Mar 1, 11:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	35 min
Mar 1, 11:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	51 min
Mar 1, 11:19 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Yazoo	56 min
Mar 1, 11:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	29 min
Mar 1, 12:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Scott	39 min
Mar 1, 12:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	32 min
Mar 1, 12:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	26 min
Mar 1, 12:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	37 min
Mar 1, 12:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	37 min
Mar 1, 12:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	46 min
Mar 1, 1:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	67 min
Mar 1, 1:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	31 min
Mar 1, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	45 min
Mar 1, 2:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	24 min
Mar 1, 2:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	53 min
Mar 1, 3:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	41 min
Mar 1, 3:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	39 min
Mar 1, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	14 min
Mar 1, 3:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	25 min
Mar 1, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	50 min
Mar 1, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	19 min
Mar 1, 3:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	31 min
Mar 1, 4:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	30 min
Mar 1, 4:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	43 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.