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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Jackson, MS

April 8, 2002Forrest County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 2002, 3:12 PM CDT for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 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: Apr 8, 2002, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Forrest County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 8, 3:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hattiesburg, MS	Several trees were blown down between Camp Shelby and Hattiesburg.

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
Apr 8, 12:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 082012
TORJAN
MSC035-082045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
312 PM CDT MON APR 8 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 312 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF HATTIESBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35    
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  REMAIN OVER RURAL NORTHERN FORREST COUNTY 

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 3138 8942 3123 8931 3146 8882 3143 8918

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 5:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	29 min
Apr 8, 5:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	47 min
Apr 8, 6:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	43 min
Apr 8, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	45 min
Apr 8, 6:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Smith	54 min
Apr 8, 8:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	27 min
Apr 8, 11:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	49 min
Apr 8, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	35 min
Apr 8, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	26 min
Apr 8, 1:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	29 min
Apr 8, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	25 min
Apr 8, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	23 min
Apr 8, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	33 min
Apr 8, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	28 min
Apr 8, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	24 min
Apr 8, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	37 min
Apr 8, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Winston	28 min
Apr 8, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	35 min
Apr 8, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	27 min
Apr 8, 2:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	36 min
Apr 8, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	22 min
Apr 8, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	33 min
Apr 8, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	31 min
Apr 8, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	29 min
Apr 8, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	34 min
Apr 8, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Kemper, Lowndes, Noxubee	29 min
Apr 8, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	27 min
Apr 8, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	13 min

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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.