Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 180
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 29, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT for 23 counties in Alabama; Haralson County, Georgia; 25 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2002, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Haralson County, GA, Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 25 min |
| Apr 29, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Leflore | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 23 min |
| Apr 29, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 35 min |
| Apr 29, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Apr 29, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 34 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, Cullman and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma, Humphreys, Leflore, Quitman, Sunflower and 2 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.