Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 7:19 PM CST for Claiborne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 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 30, 2002, 7:19 PM CST (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Claiborne County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 310119 TORJAN MSC021-310200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 719 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLAIBORNE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 800 PM CST * AT 719 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER PORT GIBSON...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF VICKSBURG... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... REMAIN OVER RURAL CLAIBORNE COUNTY THIS REPLACES THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. LAT...LON 3191 9107 3187 9086 3212 9076 3208 9101
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 7:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 8:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 9:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey, Sunflower | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 1:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 1:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 1:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 18 min |
| Mar 31, 1:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Sharkey, Sunflower and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 2:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada, Montgomery | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 2:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 3:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 2 hr |
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.