Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2002, 4:09 PM CST for Simpson County, Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 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
- Mar 15, 2002, 4:09 PM CST (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2002, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 4:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Raleigh, MS | Straight-line winds damaged a barn, destroyed a chicken house, and downed numerous trees west of the city of Raleigh. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KJAN 152209 SVRJAN MSC127-129-152300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 409 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SMITH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI SIMPSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 500 PM CST * AT 409 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF RALEIGH...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF MAGEE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL... BE NEAR RALEIGH AT 440 PM CST WINDS FROM 60 TO 70 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3204 8978 3187 8980 3195 8939 3217 8946
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 3:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Lamar | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 44 min |
| Mar 15, 5:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 28 min |
| Mar 15, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Holmes | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.