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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 7:37 PM CDT for Attala County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 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
- Oct 3, 2002, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2002, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Attala County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 7:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, MS | Several trees and powerlines were blown down across the county. |
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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
471 WFUS54 KJAN 040037 TORJAN MSC007-040105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 737 PM CDT THU OCT 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ATTALA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 805 PM CDT * AT 737 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTH OF ETHEL...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR ETHEL AT 755 PM CDT BE NEAR MCCOOL AT 800 PM CDT TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 14 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.