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Tornado Warning 79, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 2012, 11:36 PM CDT for Attala County, Madison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 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
- Oct 17, 2012, 11:36 PM CDT (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2012, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Attala County, MS, Madison County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
293
WFUS54 KJAN 180436
TORJAN
MSC007-089-180515-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0079.121018T0436Z-121018T0515Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1136 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN ATTALA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
* AT 1136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES NORTH OF
WAY MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
CAMERON BY 1150 PM CDT...
CAMDEN BY 1155 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.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS!
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3291 8973 3278 8973 3275 8972 3265 8973
3273 9007 3275 9004 3283 9002 3284 8999
3286 8998 3291 8993 3291 8984
TIME...MOT...LOC 0436Z 282DEG 38KT 3286 9004
$$
BYBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 64 min |
| Oct 17, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 41 min |
| Oct 17, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 43 min |
| Oct 17, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 53 min |
| Oct 17, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 33 min |
| Oct 17, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 30 min |
| Oct 17, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 63 min |
| Oct 17, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada | 40 min |
| Oct 17, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 36 min |
| Oct 17, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo | 65 min |
| Oct 17, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 31 min |
| Oct 17, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Sharkey, Yazoo | 53 min |
| Oct 17, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Webster | 60 min |
| Oct 17, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 47 min |
| Oct 17, 11:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 48 min |
| Oct 17, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha | 65 min |
| Oct 17, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 56 min |
| Oct 17, 11:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin | 46 min |
| Oct 18, 12:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 57 min |
| Oct 18, 12:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton, Scott | 55 min |
| Oct 18, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Jefferson, Lincoln | 58 min |
| Oct 18, 1:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 12 min |
| Oct 18, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 38 min |
| Oct 18, 1:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 63 min |
| Oct 18, 1:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 34 min |
| Oct 18, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 15 min |
| Oct 18, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 56 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.