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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Jackson, MS

March 26, 2002Adams County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2002, 12:46 AM CST for Adams County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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: Mar 26, 2002, 12:46 AM CST (06:46 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2002, 1:15 AM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Adams 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 260646 CCA
SVRJAN
MSC001-260715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1242 AM CST TUE MAR 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 115 AM CST

* AT 1242 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NATCHEZ...MOVING   
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE HOMOCHITTO NATIONAL   
  FORREST.
  

WINDS UP TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

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

LAT...LON 3136 9139 3127 9121 3160 9117 3169 9124

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 11:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	28 min
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, 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.