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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jackson, MS

December 31, 2010Attala County, Holmes County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Dec 31, 2010, 11:39 PM CST for Attala County, Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 66 min. 13 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: Dec 31, 2010, 11:39 PM CST (05:39 UTC)
Expired: Jan 1, 2011, 12:45 AM CST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Attala County, MS, Holmes County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:40 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
Dec 31, 11:52 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	3 Nw Goodman, MS	TREES AND LARGE SIGNS BLOWN DOWN ALONG INTERSTATE 55 JUST NORTH OF EXIT 146.
Dec 31, 11:52 PM CST	TORNADO	3 Nw Goodman, MS	TREES AND LARGE SIGNS BLOWN DOWN ALONG INTERSTATE 55 JUST NORTH OF EXIT 146.
Dec 31, 11:55 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	2 W Goodman, MS	STRONG WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH A REAR FLANK DOWNDRAFT SNAPPED OR UPROOTED SEVERAL TREES NEAR MS HIGHWAY 17 AND MS HIGHWAY 14 WEST OF GOODMAN. A HIGHWAY SIGN WAS SNAPPED AT THE GOODMAN EXIT ALONG INTERSTATE 55.
Jan 1, 12:02 AM CST	TORNADO 2	4 Ese Durant, MS	* 1 INJ * THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR MS HIGHWAY 12 ESE OF DURANT...MOVING ENE ACROSS MS HIGHWAY 19 AND MS HIGHWAY 35 NEAR HESTERVILLE. THE TORNADO DISSIPATED 7 MI NORTH OF ETHEL. THOUSANDS OF TREES WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. SEVERAL OUTBUILDINGS WERE DES
Jan 1, 12:02 AM CST	TORNADO 3	4 Ese Durant, MS	* 2 INJ * THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR MS HIGHWAY 12 ESE OF DURANT...MOVING ENE ACROSS MS HIGHWAY 19 AND MS HIGHWAY 35 NEAR HESTERVILLE. THE TORNADO DISSIPATED 7 MI NORTH OF ETHEL. THOUSANDS OF TREES WERE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. SEVERAL OUTBUILDINGS WERE DES
Jan 1, 12:03 AM CST	TORNADO	1 Nw Sallis, MS	NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWNED NEAR SALLIS...BLOCKING ROADS IN THE AREA. SEVERAL VEHICLES DAMAGED IN THE AREA.
Jan 1, 12:05 AM CST	TORNADO	6 Nne Sallis, MS	* 2 INJ * 7-10 HOMES HEAVILY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED NEAR THE HWY 19 AREA N OF SALLIS.
Jan 1, 12:06 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Sallis, MS	A FEW TREES DOWN.
Jan 1, 12:07 AM CST	TORNADO	3 Se Possumneck, MS	A HOME WAS DESTROYED ALONG MS HIGHWAY 19 NEAR POSSUMNECK.
Jan 1, 12:10 AM CST	TORNADO	2 E Possumneck, MS	DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AT CENTRAL HILLS BAPTIST CAMP.
Jan 1, 12:10 AM CST	TORNADO	3 Sw Hesterville, MS	A ROOF WAS BLOWN OFF OF A HOUSE.
Jan 1, 12:14 AM CST	TORNADO	Hesterville, MS	SEVERAL TREES WERE DOWNED AROUND HESTERVILLE.
Jan 1, 12:23 AM CST	TORNADO	5 Nw Ethel, MS	TREES DOWN ACROSS CR 2101.

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
Dec 31, 10:46 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 1802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

405 
WFUS54 KJAN 010539
TORJAN
MSC007-051-010645-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0008.110101T0539Z-110101T0645Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1139 PM CST FRI DEC 31 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ATTALA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KOSCIUSKO...
  SOUTHEASTERN HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DURANT...

* UNTIL 1245 AM CST

* AT 1140 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF
  PICKENS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PICKENS AND FRANKLIN BY 1145 PM CST...
  GOODMAN AND MCMILLAN BY 1150 PM CST...
  DURANT AND BOWLING GREEN BY 1155 PM CST...
  NEWPORT BY MIDNIGHT CST...
  MCADAMS AND POSSUMNECK BY 1205 AM CST...
  HESTERVILLE BY 1210 AM CST...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. YOU
SHOULD ACTIVATE YOUR TORNADO ACTION PLAN AND TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION
NOW.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST SATURDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI.

&&

LAT...LON 3328 8932 3293 8932 3293 8972 3288 8973
      3289 8997 3293 8994 3306 9005 3315 9003
      3318 9001 3326 8986 3323 8975 3329 8969
TIME...MOT...LOC 0540Z 257DEG 44KT 3294 9007

$$

COHEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 31, 6:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Rankin, Scott	60 min
Dec 31, 6:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Smith	66 min
Dec 31, 7:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	58 min
Dec 31, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	56 min
Dec 31, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	55 min
Dec 31, 7:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	64 min
Dec 31, 7:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	49 min
Dec 31, 8:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey, Washington	60 min
Dec 31, 8:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah	40 min
Dec 31, 8:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	33 min
Dec 31, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Leflore	50 min
Dec 31, 9:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington, Yazoo	3 hr
Dec 31, 9:26 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada, Holmes and 9 more	7 hr
Dec 31, 9:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	69 min
Dec 31, 9:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Humphreys, Montgomery	3 hr
Dec 31, 9:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	40 min
Dec 31, 10:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Montgomery	59 min
Dec 31, 10:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	42 min
Dec 31, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	60 min
Dec 31, 10:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	42 min
Dec 31, 10:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster	54 min
Dec 31, 10:28 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Webster	3 hr
Dec 31, 10:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Warren, Yazoo	61 min
Dec 31, 11:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo	53 min
Dec 31, 11:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds, Warren	68 min
Dec 31, 11:29 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Warren, Yazoo	4 hr
Dec 31, 11:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	55 min
Dec 31, 11:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	64 min
Dec 31, 11:58 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Choctaw, Holmes	3 hr
Jan 1, 12:11 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Smith	64 min
Jan 1, 12:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Madison	59 min
Jan 1, 12:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Clay, Montgomery, Oktibbeha, Winston	54 min
Jan 1, 12:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Choctaw, Leake, Neshoba, Winston	59 min
Jan 1, 1:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha	55 min
Jan 1, 1:11 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Newton, Scott	64 min
Jan 1, 1:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Smith	67 min
Jan 1, 1:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson, Smith	5 hr
Jan 1, 1:47 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	58 min
Jan 1, 1:50 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lowndes	25 min
Jan 1, 1:54 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott	3 hr
Jan 1, 2:05 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston	2 hr
Jan 1, 2:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	17 min
Jan 1, 2:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton	60 min
Jan 1, 2:51 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	3 hr
Jan 1, 2:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	64 min
Jan 1, 3:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	34 min
Jan 1, 3:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	79 min
Jan 1, 4:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Smith	50 min
Jan 1, 4:34 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jasper, Jones, Smith	34 min
Jan 1, 4:47 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Jones	3 hr
Jan 1, 9:41 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Clay	23 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.