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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Jackson, MS

March 15, 2002Clarke County, Jasper County, Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2002, 7:31 PM CST for Clarke County, Jasper County, Jones 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 15, 2002, 7:31 PM CST (01:31 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2002, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clarke County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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: 1056 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 7.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 160131
TORJAN
MSC023-061-067-160200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  CLARKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  JONES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 800 PM CST

* AT 731 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR THE SHARON 
  COMMUNITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR HEIDELBERG AT 740 PM CST
  BE NEAR PACHUTA AT 800 PM CST

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

LAT...LON 3182 8919 3168 8906 3193 8866 3210 8883

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	49 min
Mar 15, 7:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Washington	42 min
Mar 15, 8:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	46 min
Mar 15, 8:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	44 min
Mar 15, 11:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	29 min
Mar 15, 11:57 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Bolivar	108 min
Mar 16, 12:23 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Washington	112 min
Mar 16, 3:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	41 min
Mar 16, 5:07 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	23 min
Mar 16, 5:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	59 min
Mar 16, 6:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	37 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.