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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Mobile, AL

December 23, 2002Perry County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2002, 8:58 PM CST for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr. 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 23, 2002, 8:58 PM CST (02:58 UTC)
Expired
Dec 24, 2002, 3:45 AM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Perry County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Dec 23, 8:20 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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 00:00Z on 2002-12-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 00:00Z on 2002-12-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 285 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
398 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.

129 
WFUS54 KMOB 240258
TORMOB
MSC111-240330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
857 PM CST MON DEC 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM CST

* AT 853 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  JANICE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  FERGUSON...WINGATE BY 905 PM CST
  BEAUMONT...KITTRELL BY 910 PM CST

IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3114 8920 3098 8910 3110 8885 3132 8885

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 23, 9:21 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBGreene7 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.