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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Jackson, MS

March 21, 2012Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 21, 2012, 2:05 PM CDT for Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 21 min. 1 report 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 21, 2012, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired: Mar 21, 2012, 2:26 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Rankin County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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
Mar 21, 2:07 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 Wsw Pelahatchie, MS	ROOF COMPLETELY OFF OF A FRAME HOME AND NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ALONG US HIGHWAY 80. LIKELY TORNADO BASED ON RADAR.

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 21, 10:07 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 22 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: 143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

582 
WFUS54 KJAN 211905
TORJAN
MSC121-212000-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0032.120321T1905Z-120321T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
205 PM CDT WED MAR 21 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 205 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF PELAHATCHIE MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PELAHATCHIE BY 210 PM CDT...
  FANNIN BY 225 PM CDT...
  GOSHEN SPRINGS AND PISGAH BY 230 PM CDT...

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 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI.

&&

LAT...LON 3223 8978 3221 8991 3248 9002 3249 9000
      3249 8999 3250 8998 3249 8996 3259 8984
      3258 8983 3258 8978
TIME...MOT...LOC 1905Z 174DEG 30KT 3227 8989

$$

AEC

2 follow-up statements

761 
WWUS54 KJAN 211915
SVSJAN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
215 PM CDT WED MAR 21 2012

MSC121-212000-
/O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-120321T2000Z/
RANKIN MS-
215 PM CDT WED MAR 21 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL RANKIN COUNTY...

AT 215 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUE TO
TRACK A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FANNIN MOVING NORTH AT 45
MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PISGAH AND FANNIN BY 220 PM CDT...
  GOSHEN SPRINGS BY 225 PM CDT...

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 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI.

&&

LAT...LON 3230 8980 3227 8991 3248 9002 3249 8999
      3250 8998 3249 8996 3252 8992 3252 8991
      3258 8984 3258 8978
TIME...MOT...LOC 1915Z 170DEG 39KT 3240 8987

$$

19

627 
WWUS54 KJAN 211926
SVSJAN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
226 PM CDT WED MAR 21 2012

MSC121-211936-
/O.CAN.KJAN.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-120321T2000Z/
RANKIN MS-
226 PM CDT WED MAR 21 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL RANKIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS WEAKENED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3230 8980 3227 8991 3248 9002 3249 8999
      3250 8998 3249 8996 3252 8992 3252 8991
      3258 8984 3258 8978
TIME...MOT...LOC 1926Z 170DEG 39KT 3252 8989

$$

AEC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 21, 9:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	40 min
Mar 21, 10:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jefferson	60 min
Mar 21, 10:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Jefferson	42 min
Mar 21, 10:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAN	Adams	3 hr
Mar 21, 10:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson	27 min
Mar 21, 10:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	40 min
Mar 21, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	55 min
Mar 21, 10:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	57 min
Mar 21, 10:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Warren	33 min
Mar 21, 11:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	45 min
Mar 21, 11:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	58 min
Mar 21, 11:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds	60 min
Mar 21, 11:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo	58 min
Mar 21, 11:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lawrence	31 min
Mar 21, 11:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds	60 min
Mar 21, 11:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lincoln	31 min
Mar 21, 12:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	55 min
Mar 21, 12:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	51 min
Mar 21, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	61 min
Mar 21, 12:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison	60 min
Mar 21, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	37 min
Mar 21, 12:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	58 min
Mar 21, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Yazoo	29 min
Mar 21, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Marion	65 min
Mar 21, 1:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds	52 min
Mar 21, 1:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison	49 min
Mar 21, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Simpson, Smith	61 min
Mar 21, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	50 min
Mar 21, 2:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	59 min
Mar 21, 2:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Scott	30 min
Mar 21, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	53 min
Mar 21, 2:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	16 min
Mar 21, 3:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	8 days
Mar 21, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Neshoba, Winston	58 min
Mar 21, 3:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones, Lamar	44 min
Mar 21, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	58 min
Mar 21, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clay, Oktibbeha	61 min
Mar 21, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Covington	45 min
Mar 21, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	39 min
Mar 21, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	36 min
Mar 21, 5:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	113 min
Mar 21, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	44 min
Mar 21, 6:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	116 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.