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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Jackson, MS

March 15, 2002Scott County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2002, 4:10 PM CST for Scott County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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 15, 2002, 4:10 PM CST (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2002, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Scott County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -372 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 842 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 152210
TORJAN
MSC123-152300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
409 PM CST FRI MAR 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SCOTT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 500 PM CST

* AT 409 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A TORNADO OVER MORTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  AFFECT THE BIENVILLE AND HARPERSVILLE AREAS

IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	24 min
Mar 15, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	33 min
Mar 15, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	39 min
Mar 15, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	34 min
Mar 15, 4:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	51 min
Mar 15, 4:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	45 min
Mar 15, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	40 min
Mar 15, 4:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	43 min
Mar 15, 4:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Lamar	47 min
Mar 15, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	46 min
Mar 15, 5:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	44 min
Mar 15, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	28 min
Mar 15, 5:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Holmes	34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.