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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Jackson, MS

March 2, 2012Lamar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2012, 6:00 PM CST for Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 min. 2 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: Mar 2, 2012, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2012, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lamar County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 2, 6:12 PM CST	TORNADO	Baxterville, MS	EMERGENCY MANAGERS REPORTING PATH OF DAMAGE FROM NEAR THE TOWN OF BAXTERVILLE TO THE NORTH SIDE OF PURVIS TO NEAR THE DIXIE COMMUNITY SOUTH OF HATTIESBURG. AT LEAST TWO HOMES AND ONE MOBILE HOME WITH DAMAGE...EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE...AND POWER LINES AND POWERPO
Mar 2, 6:23 PM CST	TORNADO 1	5 Ene Baxterville, MS	TORNADO RATED EF1 WITH MAX WINDS 100 MPH AND PATH WIDTH OF 300 YDS...BEGAN AT 623 PM 5 ENE OF BAXTERVILLE AND TRACKED 12 MILES TO 6 S OF HATTIESBURG AT 645 PM...AT LEAST TWO HOMES AND ONE MOBILE HOME WITH DAMAGE...EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE...AND POWER LINES AND PO

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
Mar 2, 4:47 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 1699 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 9.6

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The text

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

846 
WFUS54 KJAN 030000
TORJAN
MSC073-030100-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0022.120303T0000Z-120303T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
600 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LAMAR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 600 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF
  BAXTERVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BAXTERVILLE BY 610 PM CST...
  BAXTERVILLE BY 615 PM CST...
  PURVIS BY 635 PM 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 1100 PM CST FRIDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI.

&&

LAT...LON 3114 8966 3127 8935 3126 8935 3106 8935
      3101 8966
TIME...MOT...LOC 0000Z 245DEG 29KT 3105 8970

$$

BYB

2 follow-up statements

317 
WWUS54 KJAN 030013
SVSJAN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
613 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

MSC073-030100-
/O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-120303T0100Z/
LAMAR MS-
613 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR SOUTHERN
LAMAR COUNTY...

AT 613 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR BAXTERVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PURVIS BY 635 PM 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 1100 PM CST FRIDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI.

&&

LAT...LON 3108 8966 3108 8965 3114 8964 3127 8935
      3108 8934 3107 8936 3104 8965
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 245DEG 29KT 3109 8959

$$

BYB

203 
WWUS54 KJAN 030045
SVSJAN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
645 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

MSC073-030056-
/O.CAN.KJAN.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-120303T0100Z/
LAMAR MS-
645 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LAMAR COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE
COUNTY.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST FRIDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3108 8966 3108 8965 3114 8964 3127 8935
      3108 8934 3107 8936 3104 8965
TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 245DEG 29KT 3120 8931

$$

BYB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 6:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo	57 min
Mar 2, 6:06 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	44 min
Mar 2, 6:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Issaquena, Warren, Yazoo	74 min
Mar 2, 6:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	46 min
Mar 2, 6:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster	66 min
Mar 2, 6:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	31 min
Mar 2, 6:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	24 min
Mar 2, 6:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo	55 min
Mar 2, 6:56 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	29 min
Mar 2, 7:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	11 min
Mar 2, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	37 min
Mar 2, 7:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Warren, Yazoo	22 min
Mar 2, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Montgomery	41 min
Mar 2, 7:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee	24 min
Mar 2, 7:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	64 min
Mar 2, 7:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes	52 min
Mar 2, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	49 min
Mar 2, 7:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	35 min
Mar 2, 8:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Winston	39 min
Mar 2, 8:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Oktibbeha	51 min
Mar 2, 8:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds	25 min
Mar 2, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	56 min
Mar 2, 8:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston	66 min
Mar 2, 8:55 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Winston	30 min
Mar 2, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	45 min
Mar 2, 9:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Winston	24 min
Mar 2, 9:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds	43 min
Mar 2, 9:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	29 min
Mar 2, 9:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Newton	31 min
Mar 2, 9:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper, Newton	28 min
Mar 2, 10:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	47 min
Mar 2, 10:56 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	29 min
Mar 2, 11:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	2 hr
Mar 2, 11:38 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton, Smith	88 min
Mar 2, 11:55 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Clarke	72 min
Mar 3, 4:47 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	23 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.