Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 1:02 AM CST for Clay County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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 22, 2003, 1:02 AM CST (07:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clay 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 |
| Feb 22, 12:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
643 WUUS54 KJAN 220702 SVRJAN MSC025-220745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 101 AM CST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 145 AM CST * AT 101 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF WEST POINT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOLDEN TRIANGLE AIRPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL... BE NEAR WEST POINT AT 115 AM CST A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES SUDDENLY. HAIL UP TO AN INCH...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY. LAT...LON 3359 8868 3352 8856 3361 8849 3366 8864 $$
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, 9:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 45 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, 1:12 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.