Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 2003, 9:50 PM CST for Scott County, Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 21, 2003, 9:50 PM CST (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2003, 10:35 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Scott County, MS, Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KJAN 220350
SVRJAN
MSC123-129-220435-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
950 PM CST FRI FEB 21 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SMITH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
SCOTT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 1035 PM CST
* AT 950 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF FORKVILLE TO 8
MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURNS...OR FROM 12 MILES NORTH OF MORTON TO 15
MILES NORTHEAST OF MENDENHALL...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL...
BE NEAR BURNS...RALEIGH AT 955 PM CST
BE NEAR HOMEWOOD...HARPERVILLE...FOREST AT 1000 PM CST
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES.
LAT...LON 3254 8972 3215 8971 3207 8964 3191 8963
3191 8942 3255 8939
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 6:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 6:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin, Scott, Warren | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 7:07 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 7:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 59 min |
| Feb 21, 7:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 7:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson, Smith | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Feb 21, 8:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 43 min |
| Feb 21, 8:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 44 min |
| Feb 21, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 42 min |
| Feb 21, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Feb 21, 9:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 47 min |
| Feb 21, 9:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 32 min |
| Feb 21, 9:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 46 min |
| Feb 21, 9:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 28 min |
| Feb 21, 10:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington | 42 min |
| Feb 21, 10:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Clay, Lowndes, Montgomery, Noxubee and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 10:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 46 min |
| Feb 21, 10:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 10:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 47 min |
| Feb 21, 11:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton, Scott | 44 min |
| Feb 21, 11:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 19 min |
| Feb 21, 11:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 11:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 12:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Marion | 43 min |
| Feb 22, 12:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 12:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 12:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee | 60 min |
| Feb 22, 1:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay | 43 min |
| Feb 22, 1:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 43 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.