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Tornado Watch 592
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 28, 2012, 12:56 PM CDT for 8 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2012, 12:56 PM CDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Marion County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 5%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 20%
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 43 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
461
WWUS20 KWNS 281756
SEL2
SPC WW 281756
MSZ000-290000-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 592
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1255 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2012
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 1255 PM UNTIL
700 PM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 0.5 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 35 STATUTE
MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF
PINE BELT MISSISSIPPI TO 10 MILES NORTH OF MC COMB MISSISSIPPI.
FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH
OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 591...
DISCUSSION...W-E ORIENTED BAND OF CONVECTION FROM S OF PIB TO S OF
GZH CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY WHILE DRIFTING SLOWLY NWD WITHIN A VERY
MOIST ENVIRONMENT WITH MLCAPE OF 1000-1500 J/KG. GIVEN THE OVERLAP
OF THIS INSTABILITY WITH THE NRN PERIPHERY OF STRONGER WIND FIELD
ASSOCIATED WITH T.C. ISAAC...THE THREAT FOR MINI SUPERCELLS CAPABLE
OF TORNADOES SHOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 0.5 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 10040.
...MEADSPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Saint Bernard | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 9:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 28, 12:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans and 10 more | 83 min |
| Aug 28, 3:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles and 5 more | 89 min |
| Aug 28, 5:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles and 6 more | 87 min |
| Aug 28, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 16 more | 21 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.