Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 83, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 2007, 8:55 PM CDT for Jasper County, Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2007, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jasper County, MS, Smith County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 180154 TORJAN MSC061-129-180245- /O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0083.071018T0155Z-071018T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 855 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SMITH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 855 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTH OF PINEVILLE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF STRINGER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PINEVILLE BY 915 PM CDT... ROBERTS BY 940 PM CDT... 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 3223 8941 3223 8914 3193 8939 3196 8947 TIME...MOT...LOC 0155Z 208DEG 23KT 3198 8940 $$ DHB
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KJAN 180209 SVSJAN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 909 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007 MSC061-129-180245- /O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0083.000000T0000Z-071018T0245Z/ SMITH MS-JASPER MS- 909 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR JASPER AND SMITH COUNTIES... AT 909 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROBERTS... OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF STRINGER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ROBERTS BY 940 PM CDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3223 8938 3223 8914 3203 8934 3205 8940 TIME...MOT...LOC 0209Z 208DEG 23KT 3206 8935 $$ DHB
000
WWUS54 KJAN 180225
SVSJAN
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
925 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
MSC129-180235-
/O.CAN.KJAN.TO.W.0083.000000T0000Z-071018T0245Z/
SMITH MS-
925 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SMITH COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
LAT...LON 3214 8932 3221 8932 3223 8932 3223 8931
3223 8921 3214 8928
TIME...MOT...LOC 0225Z 197DEG 28KT 3218 8930
$$
MSC061-180245-
/O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0083.000000T0000Z-071018T0245Z/
JASPER MS-
925 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR JASPER
COUNTY...
AT 925 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROBERTS...
OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
ROBERTS BY 935 PM CDT...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3214 8932 3221 8932 3223 8932 3223 8931
3223 8921 3214 8928
TIME...MOT...LOC 0225Z 197DEG 28KT 3218 8930
$$
DHBThe 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, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Warren | 56 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 |
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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.