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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Jackson, MS

March 25, 2002Washington County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2002, 11:47 PM CST for Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 2002, 11:47 PM CST (05:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2002, 12:15 AM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 25, 11:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 751 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1368 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KJAN 260547
SVRJAN
MSC151-260615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1146 PM CST MON MAR 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1215 AM CST

* AT 1146 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GREENVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  AFFECT THE GREENVILLE...LELAND...AND HOLLYKNOWE AREAS.

HAIL AT LEAST THE SIZE OF DIMES IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

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 Mar 25, 3:10 PM CST, 8 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 3:10 PM CST, 8 hours 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
310 PM CST MON MAR 25 2002

MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS: INITIATION AND INTENSITY AND COVERAGE OF
CONVECTION TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY...AMOUNT OF COLD ADVECTION
TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY...PRECIP POTENTIAL ASSOCIATED WITH QUICK WARM
ADVECTION BEGINNING WEDNESDAY...AND TIMING OF PRECIPITATION FOR
FRIDAY THRU MONDAY ASSOCIATED WITH APPROACHING UPPER LOW.

A DIFFICULT FORECAST IN THE NEAR TERM WITH CONVECTIVE INITIATION AND
EVOLUTION STILL IN CONSIDERABLE DOUBT. THE WELL-ADVERTISED SPLIT
POLAR/SUBTROPICAL JET STRUCTURE IS IN PLACE...WITH PERSISTENT
ELEVATED TSTM COMPLEX OVER OZARKS...AND STILL WAITING FOR SFC-BASED
TSTM DEVELOPMENT...SUPPRESSED SO FAR BY STRONG MID LEVEL CAPPING
INVERSION. LATEST MODEL GUIDANCE SUPPORTS RECENT FORECASTS WITH BEST
SEVERE POTENTIAL OVER NW COUNTIES/PARISHES THIS EVENING...CLOSER TO
SURFACE LOW TRACK...STEEPER MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES...AND DURING MORE
FAVORABLE TIME OF DAY. OVER REMAINDER OF AREA TONIGHT...THERE IS
STILL SEVERE POTENTIAL WITH LOW LEVEL JET FORECAST TO MAXIMIZE
AROUND MIDNIGHT AHEAD OF STOUT MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE ENERGY AND A GOOD
DRY PUNCH. EXPECT A LINEAR MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM TO DEVELOP
AHEAD OF STRONG COLD FRONT AND SWEEP ACROSS ENTIRE AREA BY LATE
MORNING TUESDAY. WHILE PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ARE PROGGED TO
INCREASE TO NEAR 1.5 INCHES...DO NOT EXPECT OVERLY HEAVY RAINFALL
AMOUNTS GIVEN PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF SYSTEM.

DURING DAY TUESDAY...STRONG LOW LEVEL COLD ADVECTION SHOULD BE
UNDERWAY AND DO NOT EXPECT SURFACE TEMPS TO WARM MUCH FROM MORNING
READINGS...LIKELY FALLING IN SOME CASES. SHOULD BE ENOUGH MIXING
TUESDAY NIGHT TO KEEP LOW TEMPS ABOVE FREEZING.

FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY...LATEST ETA AND ETA EXTENSION ARE
THROWING DOUBT INTO CURRENT DRY FORECAST BY BRINGING STRONG
WARM/MOIST ADVECTION (PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES >1.5 INCHES OVER SRN
TX BY WEDNESDAY EVENING)...RESULTING IN ELEVATED CONVECTIVE
POSSIBILITIES. THE AVN IS NOT AS AGGRESSIVE AND KEEPS AREA DRY AS
PREVIOUS FORECASTS HAVE INDICATED. WILL STICK TO DRY SOLUTION FOR
NOW.

IN THE EXTENDED...MODELS HAVE BEEN VERY INCONSISTENT WITH HANDLING
OF UPPER LOW TO MOVE THRU SRN STREAM AND EVENTUALLY AFFECT THE LOWER
MS VALLEY REGION....BUT 00Z MRF AND NOW 12Z AVN/UKMET ARE IN GOOD
AGREEMENT THIS MORNING IN A MORE PROGRESSIVE SYSTEM WITH CONVECTIVE
RAINS LIKELY TO BREAK OUT BEGINNING FRIDAY...WITH MORE SIGNIFICANT
CONVECTION PROGGED FOR SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO
INCREASE RAIN WORDING FOR THIS WEEKEND. WILL INTRODUCE A DRY MONDAY
FOR NOW AS IT APPEARS SYSTEM WILL MOVE OUT BY THEN.
OVERALL...CONFIDENCE IS A BIT HIGHER THAN YESTERDAY WITH THE
EXTENDED FORECAST GIVEN THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN 12Z UKMET AND 12Z
AVN...HOWEVER...CONFIDENCE IS STILL LIMITED AS CUT OFF LOWS IN
SPRING ARE NOT THE MOST PREDICTABLE FEATURES.

PRELIM NUMBERS...
JAN...56/63/38/66/40 94000
MEI...58/66/38/67/38 87000

.JAN...
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.
MS...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 25, 11:14 PM CST, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1114 PM CST MON MAR 25 2002

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1050 PM    BASTROP                   LA   0.88 INCH HAIL
03/25/02   MOREHOUSE                      S.O. REPORTED NICKEL SIZE
                                          HAIL.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 12:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	62 min
Mar 26, 12:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	32 min
Mar 26, 12:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	29 min
Mar 26, 1:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	34 min
Mar 26, 2:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	41 min
Mar 26, 2:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Warren	32 min
Mar 26, 3:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.