Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 2002, 5:07 AM CST for Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 23 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
- Mar 16, 2002, 5:07 AM CST (11:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2002, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hinds County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 5:10 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Byram, MS | The tornado touched down approximately four miles west of the city of Byram, then tracked northeast two miles. The worst damage occurred along and near Spring Wood Drive and Springdale Road, where nine homes sustained major, structural damage. Thirty other hom |
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 nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 161107 TORJAN MSC049-161130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 506 AM CST SAT MAR 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 530 AM CST * AT 506 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER TERRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR BYRAM BY 520 AM. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3216 9049 3205 9034 3210 9025 3231 9025
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, 7:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Jones | 29 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, 5:16 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.