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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Jackson, MS

March 29, 2002Bolivar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2002, 11:14 PM CST for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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 29, 2002, 11:14 PM CST (05:14 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2002, 11:45 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bolivar County, MS

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 29, 11:20 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Duncan, MS	Straight-line winds from a severe thunderstorm overturned an eighteen wheel truck and trailer near the intersection of Highways 1 and 444.

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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 1435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

351 
WUUS54 KJAN 300514
SVRJAN
MSC011-300545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1113 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1145 PM CST

* AT 1113 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUNCAN...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES SOUTH OF ELAINE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  BE NEAR ALLIGATOR...DUNCAN AT 1120 PM CST

WINDS UP TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

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

LAT...LON 3422 9092 3405 9100 3395 9074 3393 9067
          3412 9067

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 12:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	41 min
Mar 30, 1:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	45 min
Mar 30, 11:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	38 min
Mar 30, 5:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	45 min
Mar 30, 5:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.