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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Jackson, MS

April 29, 2002Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2002, 2:38 PM CDT for Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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: Apr 29, 2002, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2002, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jones County, MS

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 868 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 2.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

076 
WUUS54 KJAN 291938
SVRJAN
MSC067-292015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
238 PM CDT MON APR 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JONES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 238 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SANDERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF LAUREL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  REMAIN OVER RURAL NORTHEAST JONES COUNTY 

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3182 8894 3182 8915 3165 8894 3173 8893

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 29, 10:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 10:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1030 AM CDT MON APR 29 2002

UPDATED ZONE PACKAGE TO REFLECT SVR TSTM WATCH FOR AR COUNTIES.

SURFACE FRONT REMAINS WELL-DEFINED ACROSS CENTRAL MS INTO NE LA AT
15Z. DEWPOINTS SOUTH OF BOUNDARY IN 70S...WHILE DEWPOINTS N OF
BOUNDARY IN 40S/50S. LIS S OF FRONT INDICATING CONSIDERABLE
INSTABILITY PLUS SOUNDINGS W OF CWFA SUGGESTING POTENTIAL FOR SVR
DEVELOPMENT. MENTIONED POSSIBLE ISOLATED SVR STORMS OVER ENTIRE CWFA
IN LINE WITH DAY 1 OUTLOOK. OTHERWISE NO MAJOR CHANGES CURRENT
FORECAST ON TRACK.

.JAN...
AR...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 181
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 29, 1:57 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074-
301200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
157 PM CDT MON APR 29 2002

...THUNDERSTORMS...
ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER EXTREME
SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
AND MUCH OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE OVER
MUCH OF LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY TONIGHT... INCLUDING THE
AREA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CROSSETT ARKANSAS...TO ROSEDALE
MISSISSIPPI...TO GRENADA...TO THE COLUMBUS AREA. THE THREAT AREA
INCLUDES THE JACKSON METROPOLITAN AREA...ALONG WITH THE CITIES OF
VICKSBURG...MERIDIAN...NATCHEZ...BROOKHAVEN...LAUREL...AND
HATTIESBURG. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OVER 70 MPH WILL
BE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY BEFORE
MIDNIGHT.

A NEAR-STATIONARY FRONT WILL REMAIN ROUGHLY ALONG INTERSTATE 20
THROUGH THIS EVENING...BEFORE LIFTING LATE TONIGHT INTO NORTH
MISSISSIPPI. WITH AFTERNOON HEATING...THE WARM...UNSTABLE AIRMASS
OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY WILL BECOME EVEN MORE
UNSTABLE. CONDITIONS WILL BE CONDUCIVE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A
FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL ALSO FOCUS
STORM DEVELOPMENT. WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS...LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL MAY OCCUR...WITH BRIEF PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

AFTER THE SUN SETS AND ATMOSPHERE COOLS DOWN...THE AIRMASS WILL
BECOME MORE STABLE. IN ADDITION...THE LIFT PROVIDED BY THE FRONT
WILL WEAKEN AS THE BOUNDARY PUSHES NORTH. MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA WILL DISSIPATE BY MIDNIGHT.

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA LATE THIS AFTERNOON
THROUGH TONIGHT. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THIS STORM
SYSTEM.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	36 min
Apr 29, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sunflower	24 min
Apr 29, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Leflore	45 min
Apr 29, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	23 min
Apr 29, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	24 min
Apr 29, 1:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	34 min
Apr 29, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	37 min
Apr 29, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	34 min
Apr 29, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	47 min
Apr 29, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	50 min
Apr 29, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	13 min
Apr 29, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	25 min
Apr 29, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	38 min
Apr 29, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.