Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 75, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Sep 13, 2007, 5:20 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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
- Sep 13, 2007, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jefferson County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1057 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KJAN 132220
TORJAN
MSC063-132300-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0075.070913T2220Z-070913T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
520 PM CDT THU SEP 13 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 520 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6
MILES SOUTH OF CHURCH HILL...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
NATCHEZ...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
STAMPLEY AND CHURCH HILL BY 530 PM CDT...
FAYETTE BY 550 PM CDT...
LORMAN AND RED LICK BY 600 PM CDT...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
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 3187 9110 3178 9091 3163 9114 3165 9123
3168 9129
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 228DEG 18KT 3164 9122
$$
DHB1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KJAN 132239
SVSJAN
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
539 PM CDT THU SEP 13 2007
MSC063-132300-
/O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0075.000000T0000Z-070913T2300Z/
JEFFERSON MS-
539 PM CDT THU SEP 13 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR JEFFERSON
COUNTY...
AT 539 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CHURCH HILL...OR ABOUT 18
MILES NORTHEAST OF NATCHEZ...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
LORMAN BY 555 PM CDT...
RED LICK BY 600 PM CDT...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3166 9123 3170 9127 3187 9110 3183 9101
3182 9100 3182 9097 3180 9098 3164 9114
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 222DEG 22KT 3175 9115
$$
DHBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 4:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | JAN | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 41 more | 28 hr |
| Sep 13, 9:49 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | JAN | Adams, Attala, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 28 more | 13 hr |
| Sep 13, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Adams | 37 min |
| Sep 13, 5:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Warren | 3 hr |
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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.