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Tornado Warning 78, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Dec 19, 2002, 10:36 AM CST for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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
- Dec 19, 2002, 10:36 AM CST (16:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2002, 11:05 AM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Yazoo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 6:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 191636 TORJAN MSC163-191705- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1036 AM CST THU DEC 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN YAZOO COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1105 AM CST * AT 1036 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER YAZOO COUNTY...ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF CANTON... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... REMAIN OVER RURAL YAZOO COUNTY IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. LAT...LON 3282 9024 3272 9009 3284 8993 3290 9001
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 4 hr |
| Dec 19, 2:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 58 min |
| Dec 19, 6:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 2 hr |
| Dec 19, 8:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower | 24 min |
| Dec 19, 8:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 47 min |
| Dec 19, 9:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 46 min |
| Dec 19, 9:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Dec 19, 9:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah | 27 min |
| Dec 19, 10:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 10:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 19 min |
| Dec 19, 10:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 45 min |
| Dec 19, 10:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Dec 19, 10:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 44 min |
| Dec 19, 10:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 32 min |
| Dec 19, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 11:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 11:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 43 min |
| Dec 19, 11:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 11:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 42 min |
| Dec 19, 12:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 12:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 27 min |
| Dec 19, 12:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 31 min |
| Dec 19, 1:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 46 min |
| Dec 19, 1:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 43 min |
| Dec 19, 1:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 1:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 43 min |
| Dec 19, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 25 min |
| Dec 19, 1:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 61 min |
| Dec 19, 1:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 26 min |
| Dec 19, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 40 min |
| Dec 19, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 31 min |
| Dec 19, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 35 min |
| Dec 19, 2:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 31 min |
| Dec 19, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 30 min |
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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.