Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 2002, 3:33 PM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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 24, 2002, 3:33 PM CST (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2002, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jasper County, MS, Newton County, MS, Smith County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 4:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Heidelberg, MS | Several trees were blown down in and near town. |
| Jan 24, 4:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Bethel, MS | Several trees were blown down on Highway 15 South in Bethel. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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 24, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KJAN 242133 SVRJAN MSC061-101-129-242215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 330 PM CST THU JAN 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NEWTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI SMITH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 415 PM CST * AT 330 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES WEST OF MERIDIAN TO 17 MILES EAST OF MAGEE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. WIDESPREAD WIND SPEEDS FROM 60 TO 70 MPH ARE LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF THE WARNED COUNTIES...WHICH WILL DOWN TREES... AND POWER LINES. LAT...LON 3248 8902 3184 8964 3186 8897 3226 8894
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 3:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 27 min |
| Jan 24, 6:46 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 6:59 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Grenada | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 7:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leflore | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 8:10 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 8:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 8:59 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:46 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 10:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Grenada | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 11:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 11:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 51 min |
| Jan 24, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 1:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 42 min |
| Jan 24, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 59 min |
| Jan 24, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 34 min |
| Jan 24, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott, Simpson, Smith | 54 min |
| Jan 24, 2:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 29 min |
| Jan 24, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton | 35 min |
| Jan 24, 2:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton | 35 min |
| Jan 24, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jan 24, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Marion, Smith | 25 min |
| Jan 24, 3:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 23 min |
| Jan 24, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 50 min |
| Jan 24, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 29 min |
| Jan 24, 3:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar | 36 min |
| Jan 24, 3:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Jan 24, 3:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 32 min |
| Jan 24, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 40 min |
| Jan 24, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 33 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.