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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2002, 8:50 PM CST for Madison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2002, 8:50 PM CST (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2002, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 8:55 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Flora, MS |
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 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 35 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.
776 WFUS54 KJAN 310250 TORJAN MSC089-310315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 849 PM CST SAT MAR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 915 PM CST * AT 849 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER FLORA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF CLINTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR FLORA AT 850 PM CST THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR WESTERN MADISON COUNTY. 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.
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, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 41 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.