1971 Mississippi Delta Tornado Outbreak

 

WSR-57 Radar images from Jackson, MS

                 2213Z (broad)

                 2213Z (close up)

                 2215Z (unfiltered)

                 2332Z (unfiltered)

                 0015Z (filtered)

Plot of tornado tracks (created from Severe Plot v. 2.0 (Hart and Janish, SPC))

Soundings:

                 00Z JAN February 22, 1971

                 12Z and 00Z (overlay) JAN February 21-22, 1971

12Z February 21, 1971 Soundings:

                 Abilene, Texas (ABI)

                 Amarillo, Texas (AMA)

                 Nashville, Tennessee (BNA)

                 Brownsville, Texas (BRO)

                 Del Rio, Texas (DRT)

                 Fort Worth, Texas (FWH)

                 Jackson, Mississippi (JAN)

                 Little Rock, Arkansas (LZK)

                 Midland, Texas (MAF)

                 Montgomery, Alabama (MGM)

                 Shreveport, Louisiana (SHV)

                 Tinker AFB, Oklahoma (TIK)

                 Victoria, Texas (VCT)

00Z February 22, 1971 Soundings:

                 Amarillo, Texas (AMA)

                 Nashville, Tennessee (BNA)

                 Fort Worth, Texas (FWH)

                 Jackson, Mississippi (JAN)

                 Lake Charles, Louisiana (LCH)

                 Little Rock, Arkansas (LZK)

                 Montgomery, Alabama (MGM)

                 Shreveport, Louisiana (SHV)

                 Victoria, Texas (VCT)

12Z February 22, 1971 Soundings:

                 Athens, Georgia (AHN)

                 Montgomery, Alabama (MGM)

Surface Observations:

                 Jackson-JAN (page 1)

                 Jackson-JAN (page 2)

                 Greenwood-GWO (page 1)

                 Greenwood-GWO (page 2)

                 Greenville-GLH

Plots (Incomplete) February 21, 1971

                 01Z, 02Z, 03Z, 04Z, 05Z, 06Z, 07Z, 08Z, 09Z, 10Z, 11Z, 12Z, 13Z, 14Z, 15Z, 16Z, 17Z, 18Z, 19Z, 20Z,                  21Z, 22Z, 23Z

Plots (Incomplete) February 22, 1971

                 00Z, 01Z, 02Z, 03Z, 04Z, 05Z,  06Z, 07Z, 08Z, 09Z, 10Z

Products issued by NSSFC:

Public Tornado Watches

                 Watch 36

                 Watch 37

                 Watch 38

                 Watch 39

                 Watch 40

                 Watch 41

                 Watch 42

                 Watch 43

Convective Outlooks

                 12Z

                 15Z

Penn State Reanalysis Page Data

                 Homepage: http://hart.met.psu.edu/meteo497/patternmap.html

Reanalysis Data from 12Z February 21, 1971

                 Heights

                 Temperatures (significant levels)

                 Thicknesses

                 Surface Max and Min temperatures

                 Surface Fields

                 Shear

Reanalysis Data from 00Z February 22, 1971

                 Heights

                 Temperatures (significant levels)

                 Thicknesses

                 Surface Max and Min temperatures

                 Surface Fields

                 Shear