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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Jackson, MS

February 12, 2008Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 12, 2008, 2:24 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Feb 12, 2008, 2:24 PM CST (20:24 UTC)
Expired: Feb 12, 2008, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lauderdale County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 12, 2:40 PM CST	FUNNEL CLOUD	Meridian, MS	FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED NEAR KEY FEILD.
Feb 12, 2:41 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	5 W Meridian, MS	LARGE TREE DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY 80 WEST NEAR MEEHAN.
Feb 12, 2:41 PM CST	HAIL 1	3 N Meridian, MS	QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN BAILEY. WINDS WERE ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND 50 MPH.
Feb 12, 2:46 PM CST	TSTM WND GST 55	Meridian, MS	MEASURED GUST AT MEI, KEY FIELD.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 12, 12:34 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 122024
TORJAN
MSC075-122115-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0070.080212T2024Z-080212T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
224 PM CST TUE FEB 12 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LAUDERDALE...MERIDIAN STATION...
  MERIDIAN...

* UNTIL 315 PM CST

* AT 224 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  TORNADO NEAR MEEHAN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MERIDIAN...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  NELLIEBURG...SUQUALENA...MERIDIAN AND 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  COLLINSVILLE BY 230 PM CST...
  9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARTIN BY 235 PM CST...
  MARION BY 240 PM CST...
  DALEVILLE BY 245 PM CST...
  MERIDIAN STATION BY 250 PM CST...
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAUDERDALE BY 255 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 3257 8886 3258 8876 3258 8840 3223 8888
      3250 8892
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 227DEG 36KT 3238 8884

$$

AEG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 12, 9:15 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	35 hr
Feb 12, 11:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	51 min
Feb 12, 12:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	43 min
Feb 12, 12:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Warren	51 min
Feb 12, 12:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Yazoo	56 min
Feb 12, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	49 min
Feb 12, 12:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin, Simpson	41 min
Feb 12, 12:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott, Simpson and 1 more	72 min
Feb 12, 12:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	55 min
Feb 12, 12:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	51 min
Feb 12, 12:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	34 min
Feb 12, 1:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	45 min
Feb 12, 1:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	38 min
Feb 12, 1:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	49 min
Feb 12, 1:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion	38 min
Feb 12, 1:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	49 min
Feb 12, 1:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith	46 min
Feb 12, 1:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee	65 min
Feb 12, 1:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Winston	46 min
Feb 12, 1:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jasper, Jones	53 min
Feb 12, 1:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	38 min
Feb 12, 1:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton	76 min
Feb 12, 2:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	42 min
Feb 12, 2:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	39 min
Feb 12, 2:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	40 min
Feb 12, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	35 min
Feb 12, 2:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee, Winston	51 min
Feb 12, 2:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Jones	40 min
Feb 12, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	39 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.