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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jackson, MS

January 24, 2002Neshoba County, Newton County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 24, 2002, 2:55 PM CST for Neshoba County, Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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: Jan 24, 2002, 2:55 PM CST (20:55 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 2002, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Neshoba County, MS, Newton 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
Jan 24, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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.

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: 103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 242055
TORJAN
MSC099-101-242130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
254 PM CST THU JAN 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NESHOBA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  NEWTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 254 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF CONEHATTA...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF
  NEWTON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR UNION AT 300 PM CST

TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE 
HOMES. 

LAT...LON 3259 8932 3242 8929 3255 8892 3272 8895

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 3:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	27 min
Jan 24, 6:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Sunflower	3 hr
Jan 24, 6:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada	3 hr
Jan 24, 7:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leflore	3 hr
Jan 24, 8:10 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Washington	3 hr
Jan 24, 8:52 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Bolivar	3 hr
Jan 24, 8:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll	3 hr
Jan 24, 9:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Sunflower	3 hr
Jan 24, 10:01 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada	3 hr
Jan 24, 11:03 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Washington	3 hr
Jan 24, 11:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	51 min
Jan 24, 12:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	49 min
Jan 24, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	42 min
Jan 24, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	59 min
Jan 24, 1:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	34 min
Jan 24, 1:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah	49 min
Jan 24, 2:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Simpson, Smith	54 min
Jan 24, 2:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	29 min
Jan 24, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	35 min
Jan 24, 2:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	32 min
Jan 24, 3:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Marion, Smith	25 min
Jan 24, 3:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	23 min
Jan 24, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	50 min
Jan 24, 3:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson	29 min
Jan 24, 3:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar	36 min
Jan 24, 3:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton, Smith	42 min
Jan 24, 3:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	39 min
Jan 24, 3:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	32 min
Jan 24, 3:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	40 min
Jan 24, 3:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	33 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.