Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 61
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 30, 2002, 6:30 PM CST for Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas; 9 parishes in Louisiana; 33 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2002, 6:30 PM CST (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2002, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Madison County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Richland | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 7:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 38 min |
| Mar 30, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 8:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 9:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 11:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 23 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Acadia, Avoyelles, Cameron, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Saint Bernard | 5 hr |
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.