Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 3:17 PM CDT for Scott County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 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
- Oct 3, 2002, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scott County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Morton, MS | A National Weather Service survey found a few trees down in southwest Scott County about 7 miles south of Morton. There had also been a public sighting of this tornado which was produced by the same mesocyclone that generated the tornado in northwest Smith Co |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 9:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
594 WFUS54 KJAN 032017 TORJAN MSC123-032045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 317 PM CDT THU OCT 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 317 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTH OF MORTON...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR MORTON AT 330 PM CDT RADAR SHOWS STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING - TAKE COVER NOW LAT...LON 3224 8973 3224 8957 3255 8956 3257 8975
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 30 min |
| Oct 3, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 47 min |
| Oct 3, 12:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 26 min |
| Oct 3, 1:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 30 min |
| Oct 3, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson | 44 min |
| Oct 3, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 19 min |
| Oct 3, 2:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 38 min |
| Oct 3, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 45 min |
| Oct 3, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 31 min |
| Oct 3, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 32 min |
| Oct 3, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 48 min |
| Oct 3, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 61 min |
| Oct 3, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 44 min |
| Oct 3, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 26 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.