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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 5:37 PM CST for Attala County, Madison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 min. 5 reports 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
- Nov 10, 2002, 5:37 PM CST (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 6:25 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Attala County, MS, Madison County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 5:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Kosciusko, MS | Several trees were uprooted near the city. |
| Nov 10, 5:58 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Kosciusko, MS | |
| Nov 10, 6:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Kosciusko, MS | |
| Nov 10, 6:00 PM CST | Hail 1 | Kosciusko, MS | |
| Nov 10, 6:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Kosciusko, MS | Thunderstorm winds blew down several powerlines at the intersection of Love Road and Huntington Street. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 4:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 3:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 57 min |
| Nov 10, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 60 min |
| Nov 10, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 30 min |
| Nov 10, 5:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Oktibbeha | 31 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.