Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 82, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 2007, 8:49 PM CDT for Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 56 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
- Oct 17, 2007, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2007, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Warren County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 800 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 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 180150
TORJAN
MSC149-180245-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0082.071018T0149Z-071018T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
849 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...REDWOOD...VICKSBURG...
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 849 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
LE TOURNEAU...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF VICKSBURG...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
VICKSBURG BY 855 PM CDT...
BOVINA BY 910 PM CDT...
FLOWERS BY 915 PM CDT...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS
BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...
OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE
BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER
UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
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 3220 9105 3224 9104 3224 9098 3231 9097
3233 9090 3237 9100 3243 9097 3253 9056
3236 9062 3236 9069 3215 9079 3216 9084
3211 9093
TIME...MOT...LOC 0149Z 226DEG 34KT 3223 9088
$$
OLB1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KJAN 180230
SVSJAN
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
929 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
MSC149-180245-
/O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0082.000000T0000Z-071018T0245Z/
WARREN MS-
929 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR WARREN
COUNTY...
AT 929 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR YOUNGTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF
REDWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
LAT...LON 3245 9067 3248 9071 3253 9056 3249 9057
3249 9059 3244 9059 3243 9061 3239 9061
3239 9063
TIME...MOT...LOC 0229Z 225DEG 29KT 3248 9058
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 43 min |
| Oct 17, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 31 min |
| Oct 17, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 28 min |
| Oct 17, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 30 min |
| Oct 17, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 32 min |
| Oct 17, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 50 min |
| Oct 17, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 38 min |
| Oct 17, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 51 min |
| Oct 17, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 22 min |
| Oct 17, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 46 min |
| Oct 18, 4:47 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | JAN | Adams, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin and 17 more | 14 hr |
| Oct 18, 1:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clay, Oktibbeha | 28 min |
| Oct 18, 1:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha | 43 min |
| Oct 18, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 49 min |
| Oct 18, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Oktibbeha | 51 min |
| Oct 18, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 48 min |
| Oct 18, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 41 min |
| Oct 18, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 23 min |
| Oct 18, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 43 min |
| Oct 18, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.