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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Aug 30, 2012, 8:10 PM CDT for Jasper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 30, 2012, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2012, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Jasper County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
881 WFUS54 KJAN 310110 TORJAN MSC061-310200- /O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0062.120831T0110Z-120831T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 810 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTH OF PAULDING MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PAULDING BY 825 PM CDT... ROSE HILL BY 840 PM CDT... GARLANDVILLE BY 850 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 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3184 8905 3185 8918 3222 8918 3222 8894 TIME...MOT...LOC 0110Z 183DEG 31KT 3189 8909 $$ BYB
2 follow-up statements
149 WWUS54 KJAN 310130 SVSJAN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 830 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2012 MSC061-310200- /O.CON.KJAN.TO.W.0062.000000T0000Z-120831T0200Z/ JASPER MS- 830 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY... AT 830 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUE TO TRACK A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR PAULDING MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ROSE HILL BY 845 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. YOU SHOULD ACTIVATE YOUR TORNADO ACTION PLAN AND TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3197 8903 3198 8918 3222 8918 3222 8898 TIME...MOT...LOC 0130Z 180DEG 28KT 3204 8911 $$ BYB
062 WWUS54 KJAN 310151 SVSJAN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 851 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2012 MSC061-310202- /O.EXP.KJAN.TO.W.0062.000000T0000Z-120831T0200Z/ JASPER MS- 851 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 900 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3197 8903 3198 8918 3222 8918 3222 8898 TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 180DEG 28KT 3221 8911 $$ BYB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 7:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 59 min |
| Aug 30, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jasper | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jasper, Jones, Smith | 37 min |
| Aug 30, 8:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 12 hr |
| Aug 30, 8:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 20 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 30, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 42 min |
| Aug 30, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 45 min |
| Aug 30, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 117 min |
| Aug 30, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 9:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Rankin | 31 min |
| Aug 30, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Winston | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 1:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Madison, Rankin | 29 min |
| Aug 31, 10:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 48 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 3:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jasper, Simpson, Smith | 40 min |
| Aug 31, 3:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Claiborne | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 4:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Warren | 43 min |
| Aug 31, 4:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 41 min |
| Aug 31, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Madison | 29 min |
| Aug 31, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lowndes | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lowndes | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.