Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2002, 1:14 AM CST for Leflore County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 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 31, 2002, 1:14 AM CST (07:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2002, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leflore County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
141 WUUS54 KJAN 310714 SVRJAN MSC083-310800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 113 AM CST SUN MAR 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LEFLORE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 200 AM CST * AT 113 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SWIFTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL... BE NEAR MORGAN CITY AT 120 AM CST BE NEAR SIDON...ITTA BENA AT 130 AM CST HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS IS POSSIBLE 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 30, 10:15 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 10:15 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1015 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES THROUGH MIDNIGHT. UPDATED TEMP FORECASTS MAINLY NRN ZONES. NEXT ROUND OF WEATHER MOVING EAST FROM TX/LA. OTHERWISE...CURRENT FORECAST ON TRACK FOR REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. .JAN... AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ASHLEY AND CHICOT COUNTIES. LA...TORNADO WATCH 62 FOR CATAHOULA...FRANKLIN...MOREHOUSE...AND RICHLAND PARISHES MS...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH 61 FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI/FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALONG AND NORTH OF GREENVILLE TO LEXINGTON TO KOSCIUSKO TO MACON LINE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 30, 9:02 PM CST, 4 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
902 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0835 PM 7W POCAHANTAS MS 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/30/02 HINDS REPORTED BY HINDS COUNTY
EMA.
0715 PM PORT GIBSON MS 1.00 INCH HAIL
03/30/02 CLAIBORNE
0745 PM WINNSBORO LA WIND DAMAGE
03/30/02 FRANKLIN LA SEVERAL TREES AND LARGE
LIMBS WERE BLOWN DOWN.
LIMBS WERE BLOCKING A FEW
ROADS AND HAD TO BE
REMOVED.
0745 PM BASKIN LA WIND DAMAGE
03/30/02 FRANKLIN LA THE PORCH OF A HOUSE WAS
DAMAGED BY STRONG WINDS.
A BARN HAD PART OF ITS
ROOF PEELED BACK.Local storm report, Mar 31, 12:00 AM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1200 AM CST SUN MAR 31 2002
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0855 PM FLORA MS 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/30/02 MADISON REPORTED BY MADISON
COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 7:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 8:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 9:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey, Sunflower | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 1:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 1:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 18 min |
| Mar 31, 1:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Sharkey, Sunflower and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 2:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada, Montgomery | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 2:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 3:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 2 hr |
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.