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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jackson, MS

January 23, 2012Jasper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 23, 2012, 3:02 AM CST for Jasper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 13 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: Jan 23, 2012, 3:02 AM CST (09:02 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 2012, 3:15 AM CST
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Jasper County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 22, 10:59 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.1

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The text

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

590 
WFUS54 KJAN 230902
TORJAN
MSC061-230915-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0008.120123T0902Z-120123T0915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
302 AM CST MON JAN 23 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL 315 AM CST

* AT 302 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PAULDING
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  ORANGE

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 MONDAY MORNING FOR
MISSISSIPPI.

&&

LAT...LON 3193 8908 3193 8909 3194 8911 3201 8916
      3214 8892 3197 8892
TIME...MOT...LOC 0902Z 244DEG 40KT 3200 8902

$$

BYB

1 follow-up statement

735 
WWUS54 KJAN 230913
SVSJAN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
313 AM CST MON JAN 23 2012

MSC061-230924-
/O.EXP.KJAN.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120123T0915Z/
JASPER MS-
313 AM CST MON JAN 23 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL JASPER COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
315 AM CST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3193 8908 3193 8909 3194 8911 3201 8916
      3214 8892 3197 8892
TIME...MOT...LOC 0914Z 244DEG 40KT 3206 8888

$$

BYB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 10:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	39 min
Jan 22, 10:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	54 min
Jan 22, 10:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Webster	44 min
Jan 22, 10:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Webster	26 min
Jan 22, 11:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	28 min
Jan 22, 11:25 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clay	30 min
Jan 22, 11:32 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake	28 min
Jan 22, 11:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	29 min
Jan 22, 11:42 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Webster	28 min
Jan 22, 11:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	26 min
Jan 22, 11:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	41 min
Jan 22, 11:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	36 min
Jan 22, 11:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	61 min
Jan 23, 12:15 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leflore	30 min
Jan 23, 12:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Smith	48 min
Jan 23, 12:39 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Grenada	31 min
Jan 23, 12:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton, Scott	51 min
Jan 23, 12:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	61 min
Jan 23, 12:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada, Leflore	42 min
Jan 23, 12:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton, Scott	49 min
Jan 23, 12:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo	33 min
Jan 23, 1:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	35 min
Jan 23, 1:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	58 min
Jan 23, 1:34 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	31 min
Jan 23, 1:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	31 min
Jan 23, 1:50 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Newton	30 min
Jan 23, 2:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	12 min
Jan 23, 2:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	65 min
Jan 23, 2:14 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale, Newton	61 min
Jan 23, 2:30 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	30 min
Jan 23, 2:35 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lowndes	40 min
Jan 23, 2:41 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Simpson	39 min
Jan 23, 2:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	51 min
Jan 23, 2:57 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	33 min
Jan 23, 3:11 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	49 min
Jan 23, 3:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	31 min
Jan 23, 3:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	44 min
Jan 23, 3:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	16 min
Jan 23, 4:27 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke, Covington, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Lauderdale and 1 more	58 min
Jan 23, 5:16 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	19 min
Jan 23, 5:22 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lamar, Marion	18 min
Jan 23, 5:46 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lamar	19 min
Jan 23, 6:40 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	15 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.