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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Jackson, MS

January 21, 2016Simpson County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 21, 2016, 5:27 PM CST for Simpson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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: Jan 21, 2016, 5:27 PM CST (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Jan 21, 2016, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.5 in

County Simpson County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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
Jan 21, 5:27 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Pinola, MS	MULTIPLE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN THE PINOLA AREA...HWY 43 N BLOCKED BY TREES WITH OTHER TREES DOWN ALONG HWY 28. LIKELY TORNADO. OTHER TREES WERE DOWN ACROSS PARTS OF THE COUNTY.

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
Jan 21, 2:14 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

504 
WFUS54 KJAN 212327
TORJAN
MSC127-220015-
/O.NEW.KJAN.TO.W.0007.160121T2327Z-160122T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
527 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SIMPSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL 615 PM CST
    
* AT 526 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER PINOLA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MENDENHALL AROUND 540 PM CST.
  SANATORIUM AROUND 550 PM CST.
  MAGEE AND MARTINVILLE AROUND 555 PM CST.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE D'LO.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3176 8998 3194 9002 3205 8989 3205 8966
      3201 8965 3200 8966 3188 8965 3177 8987
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 248DEG 25KT 3189 8997 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN

$$

10

1 follow-up statement

114 
WWUS54 KJAN 220005
SVSJAN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
605 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016

MSC127-220015-
/O.EXP.KJAN.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-160122T0015Z/
SIMPSON MS-
605 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN SIMPSON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 615
PM CST...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3176 8998 3194 9002 3205 8989 3205 8966
      3201 8965 3200 8966 3188 8965 3177 8987
TIME...MOT...LOC 0004Z 248DEG 25KT 3189 8997 

$$

CME

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 20, 7:52 PM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Clay	4 days
Jan 21, 8:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	24 min
Jan 21, 8:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	32 min
Jan 21, 9:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds	12 min
Jan 21, 9:54 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	36 min
Jan 21, 10:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	55 min
Jan 21, 10:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Yazoo	56 min
Jan 21, 11:08 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Holmes	37 min
Jan 21, 12:20 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala	25 min
Jan 21, 1:19 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	12 hr
Jan 21, 1:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Holmes	26 min
Jan 21, 1:51 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Holmes	24 min
Jan 21, 1:54 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	36 min
Jan 21, 2:04 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	26 min
Jan 21, 2:10 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Yazoo	35 min
Jan 21, 2:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	75 min
Jan 21, 2:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala	26 min
Jan 21, 2:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams	64 min
Jan 21, 2:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	47 min
Jan 21, 2:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	31 min
Jan 21, 2:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake	34 min
Jan 21, 2:43 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena and 5 more	19 hr
Jan 21, 2:43 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	JAN	Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada and 15 more	23 hr
Jan 21, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds, Warren	52 min
Jan 21, 3:11 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	3 hr
Jan 21, 3:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	54 min
Jan 21, 3:25 PM CST	Wind Advisory	JAN	Bolivar, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower, Warren and 1 more	23 hr
Jan 21, 3:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	33 min
Jan 21, 3:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	41 min
Jan 21, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	55 min
Jan 21, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	45 min
Jan 21, 3:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	61 min
Jan 21, 4:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	27 min
Jan 21, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds	43 min
Jan 21, 4:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds, Rankin, Simpson	62 min
Jan 21, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	45 min
Jan 21, 4:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	42 min
Jan 21, 4:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	66 min
Jan 21, 5:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	2 hr
Jan 21, 5:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	47 min
Jan 21, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	65 min
Jan 21, 5:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton, Scott	35 min
Jan 21, 5:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	53 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.