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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS

March 15, 2002Chicot County, Arkansas; Washington County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2002, 7:33 PM CST for Chicot County, Arkansas; Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 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, 7:33 PM CST (01:33 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2002, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Chicot County, AR, Washington County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 160133
TORJAN
ARC017-MSC151-160215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHICOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 815 PM CST

* AT 734 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER EUDORA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR EUDORA AT 735 PM CST
  BE NEAR ARCOLA...GREENVILLE AT 815 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 3317 9139 3303 9117 3326 9082 3347 9106

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 8:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	46 min
Mar 16, 12:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	41 min
Mar 16, 12:16 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	119 min
Mar 16, 12:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	47 min
Mar 15, 6:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	49 min
Mar 15, 7:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Jones	29 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.