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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Jackson, MS

March 16, 2002Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 2002, 5:16 AM CST for Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 59 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 16, 2002, 5:16 AM CST (11:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2002, 6:15 AM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rankin County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 2 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 161116
TORJAN
MSC121-161215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
516 AM CST SAT MAR 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 AM CST

* AT 516 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF RICHLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR RICHLAND AT 535 AM CST
  BE NEAR PEARL AT 545 AM CST
  BE NEAR FLOWOOD AT 550 AM CST
  BE NEAR BRANDON AT 555 AM CST

RADAR SHOWS STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING - TAKE COVER
NOW

LAT...LON 3238 9010 3227 9018 3212 9025 3230 8978
          3250 8995

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, 5:07 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	23 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.