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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Jackson, MS

February 6, 2008Clay County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 6, 2008, 1:11 AM CST for Clay County, Mississippi. It was in force for 19 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 6, 2008, 1:11 AM CST (07:11 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2008, 1:30 AM CST
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Clay County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:12 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
Feb 5, 10:01 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 771 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 320 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 4.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 060711
TORJAN
MSC025-060730-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0051.080206T0711Z-080206T0730Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
111 AM CST WED FEB 6 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WEST POINT...

* UNTIL 130 AM CST

* AT 111 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED   
  A TORNADO NEAR TIBBEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL PASS JUST EAST OF WEST POINT AROUND 120 AM CST...

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY 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 3367 8849 3352 8863 3352 8866 3356 8866
      3356 8873 3359 8877 3370 8870 3369 8852
TIME...MOT...LOC 0711Z 223DEG 47KT 3356 8865

$$

EEC

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KJAN 060715
SVSJAN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
115 AM CST WED FEB 6 2008

MSC025-060730-
/O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0051.000000T0000Z-080206T0730Z/
CLAY MS-
115 AM CST WED FEB 6 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 AM CST FOR
SOUTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY...

AT 115 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WEST 
POINT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY 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 3367 8849 3352 8863 3352 8866 3356 8866
      3356 8873 3359 8877 3370 8870 3369 8852
TIME...MOT...LOC 0715Z 223DEG 47KT 3360 8861

$$

EEC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 5, 9:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	44 min
Feb 5, 10:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	51 min
Feb 5, 11:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower	26 min
Feb 5, 11:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore	32 min
Feb 5, 11:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Montgomery	40 min
Feb 5, 11:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Warren	39 min
Feb 6, 12:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	59 min
Feb 6, 12:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	52 min
Feb 6, 12:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	40 min
Feb 6, 12:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	21 min
Feb 6, 12:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	33 min
Feb 6, 12:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds	20 min
Feb 6, 1:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	42 min
Feb 6, 1:22 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes	23 min
Feb 6, 1:25 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake	35 min
Feb 6, 1:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Winston	35 min
Feb 6, 1:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	28 min
Feb 6, 1:51 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	24 min
Feb 6, 2:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston	45 min
Feb 6, 2:09 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	36 min
Feb 6, 2:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes	47 min
Feb 6, 2:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	44 min
Feb 6, 3:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Winston	29 min
Feb 6, 3:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	33 min
Feb 6, 3:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	27 min
Feb 6, 4:36 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	Bolivar, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Sharkey, Sunflower and 1 more	13 hr

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.