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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Mobile, AL

October 3, 2002Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 2002, 5:11 PM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 3, 2002, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired
Nov 5, 2002, 10:30 AM CST
In force
33 days
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 3, 9:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2002-10-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 60 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2002-10-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

846 
WFUS54 KMOB 032211
TORMOB
MSC131-032245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
511 PM CDT THU OCT 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 507 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BEATRICE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  EASTERN STONE AND NORTHEASTERN STONE COUNTIES.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...ABANDON VEHICLES AND TRAILER
HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3071 8903 3070 8889 3089 8888 3089 8900

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.