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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Jackson, MS

January 24, 2002Jasper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 24, 2002, 3:50 PM CST for Jasper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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: Jan 24, 2002, 3:50 PM CST (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 2002, 4:30 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jasper County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 24, 4:00 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Heidelberg, MS	Several trees were blown down in and near town.

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 24, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 242150
TORJAN
MSC061-242230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
349 PM CST THU JAN 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 430 PM CST

* AT 349 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR THE TOWN 
  OF STRINGER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR HEIDELBERG AT 410 PM CST

THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN
YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.

LAT...LON 3189 8939 3181 8923 3188 8893 3209 8894

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 3:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	27 min
Jan 24, 6:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Sunflower	3 hr
Jan 24, 6:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada	3 hr
Jan 24, 7:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leflore	3 hr
Jan 24, 8:10 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Washington	3 hr
Jan 24, 8:52 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Bolivar	3 hr
Jan 24, 8:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll	3 hr
Jan 24, 9:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Sunflower	3 hr
Jan 24, 10:01 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada	3 hr
Jan 24, 11:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Washington	3 hr
Jan 24, 11:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	51 min
Jan 24, 12:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	49 min
Jan 24, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	42 min
Jan 24, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	59 min
Jan 24, 1:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	34 min
Jan 24, 1:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah	49 min
Jan 24, 2:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Simpson, Smith	54 min
Jan 24, 2:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	29 min
Jan 24, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	35 min
Jan 24, 2:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	35 min
Jan 24, 2:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	32 min
Jan 24, 3:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Marion, Smith	25 min
Jan 24, 3:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	23 min
Jan 24, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	50 min
Jan 24, 3:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	29 min
Jan 24, 3:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar	36 min
Jan 24, 3:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton, Smith	42 min
Jan 24, 3:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	39 min
Jan 24, 3:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	32 min
Jan 24, 3:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	33 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.