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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 7:21 PM CST for Winston County, Mississippi. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 2002, 7:21 PM CST (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 7:40 PM CST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Winston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 4:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 2527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.3
- Supercell composite
- 17.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
945 WFUS54 KJAN 110121 TORJAN MSC159-110140- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 720 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WINSTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 740 PM CST * AT 720 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... REMAIN OVER RURAL WINSTON COUNTY TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 22 min |
| Nov 10, 6:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Winston | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 31 min |
| Nov 10, 6:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 6:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Winston | 21 min |
| Nov 10, 6:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 7:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 29 min |
| Nov 10, 7:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Oktibbeha | 26 min |
| Nov 10, 7:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake, Madison | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 7:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Oktibbeha | 19 min |
| Nov 10, 7:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 20 min |
| Nov 10, 7:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 14 min |
| Nov 10, 7:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 26 min |
| Nov 10, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 20 min |
| Nov 10, 7:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 23 min |
| Nov 10, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake | 31 min |
| Nov 10, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake | 27 min |
| Nov 10, 8:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Winston | 26 min |
| Nov 10, 8:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah | 25 min |
| Nov 10, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah | 22 min |
| Nov 10, 8:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Winston | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 8:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 29 min |
| Nov 10, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 8:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 9:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 9:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 44 min |
| Nov 10, 9:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 15 min |
| Nov 10, 9:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 17 min |
| Nov 10, 9:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 10:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 16 min |
| Nov 10, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 43 min |
| Nov 11, 12:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 49 min |
| Nov 11, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 20 min |
| Nov 11, 1:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 28 min |
| Nov 11, 5:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 28 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.