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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Jackson, MS

April 25, 2003Forrest County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 6:24 PM CDT for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 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: Apr 25, 2003, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 7:10 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Forrest County, MS

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 25, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 25, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1355 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

001 
WUUS54 KJAN 252324
SVRJAN
MSC035-260010-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
624 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 710 PM CDT

* AT 624 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAMP SHELBY...OR ABOUT 7
  MILES SOUTH OF HATTIESBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  BE NEAR CAMP SHELBY AT 630 PM CDT
  BE NEAR BROOKLYN AT 640 PM CDT

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3135 8934 3110 8935 3103 8915 3130 8915

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 25, 6:15 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 6:15 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
615 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

DID A QUICK UPDATE TO ADJUST THE ZONE GROUPINGS FOR THE NEW WATCH.
ALSO REMOVED POPS FOR NE AND CENTRAL GROUP. OTHERWISE NO OTHER
CHANGES.

.JAN...
AR...NONE
LA...NONE
MS...NONE

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 4:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074-
261200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
406 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND SATURDAY...

...THUNDERSTORMS...
SCATTERED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS OF
SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY ANY SEVERE
STORMS THAT DEVELOP.

A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL PERSIST OVER SOUTHERN AND
SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT. A SLOW MOVING FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL INTERACT WITH THE
VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS...AND WITH DAYTIME
HEATING...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. ISOLATED
SEVERE STORMS ARE MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP ALONG AND SOUTH OF A
LINE FROM QUITMAN TO RALEIGH TO BROOKHAVEN TO BUDE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER
OPERATIONS...SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 25, 5:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
510 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0953 PM    BRANDON                   MS   TORNADO
04/24/03   RANKIN                         12 MILE LONG PATH WHICH
                                          STARTED 1.5 MILES SW OF
                                          DOWNTOWN BRANDON AND ENDED
                                          4 NW OF PELAHATCHIE.
                                          NUMEROUS HOMES AND BUSINESSES
                                          DAMAGED OR DESTROYED AND
                                          HUNDREDS OF TREES SNAPPED AND
                                          UPROOTED. F3 DAMAGE BASED ON
                                          NWS SURVEY.

Local storm report, Apr 25, 5:27 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
527 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0308 PM    5 NW BOGUE CHITTO         MS   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   LINCOLN                        REPORTED BY LINCOLN
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0330 PM    2 NE RUTH                 MS   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   LINCOLN                        REPORTED BY LINCOLN
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0345 PM    OAK VALE                  MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY FORMER NWS
                                          EMPLOYEE.

0355 PM    TOPEKA                    MS   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0400 PM    MOSELLE                   MS   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   JONES                          REPORTED BY JONES COUNTY
                                          EMA.

0410 PM    3 W BUNKER HILL           MS   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   MARION                         REPORTED BY FORMER NWS
                                          EMPLOYEE.

0415 PM    BUNKER HILL               MS   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   MARION                         REPORTED BY FORMER NWS
                                          EMPLOYEE.

0437 PM    5 SE MOUNT OLIVE          MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   COVINGTON                      PUBLIC REPORT

0510 PM    HATTIESBURG               MS   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   FORREST                        REPORTED BY FORREST
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0515 PM    HATTIESBURG               MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   FORREST                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT
                                          HATTIESBURG AIRPORT.
                                          REPORTED BY FORREST
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0522 PM    HATTIESBURG               MS   2.50 INCH HAIL
04/25/03   FORREST                        REPORTED BY FORREST
                                          COUNTY EMA.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake	42 min
Apr 24, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	46 min
Apr 24, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	41 min
Apr 24, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	44 min
Apr 24, 7:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	32 min
Apr 24, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	39 min
Apr 24, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	43 min
Apr 24, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	30 min
Apr 24, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Jefferson, Lincoln	50 min
Apr 24, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	37 min
Apr 24, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Jones	41 min
Apr 24, 8:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Jefferson, Kemper and 10 more	6 hr
Apr 24, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	30 min
Apr 24, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	45 min
Apr 24, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	41 min
Apr 24, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	43 min
Apr 24, 9:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	40 min
Apr 24, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	30 min
Apr 24, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	61 min
Apr 24, 9:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba	44 min
Apr 24, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	46 min
Apr 24, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	43 min
Apr 24, 10:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Scott	61 min
Apr 24, 10:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	9 min
Apr 24, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	32 min
Apr 24, 10:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Washington	43 min
Apr 24, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	31 min
Apr 24, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	45 min
Apr 24, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	40 min
Apr 24, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sharkey	44 min
Apr 24, 11:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sunflower, Washington	44 min
Apr 24, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	31 min
Apr 24, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	44 min
Apr 24, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	28 min
Apr 24, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	46 min
Apr 24, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	28 min
Apr 24, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey	79 min
Apr 25, 12:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale	28 min
Apr 25, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	71 min
Apr 25, 12:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	57 min
Apr 25, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	29 min
Apr 25, 1:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	42 min
Apr 25, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	30 min
Apr 25, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	46 min
Apr 25, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	59 min
Apr 25, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	43 min
Apr 25, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	44 min
Apr 25, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	42 min
Apr 25, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	44 min
Apr 25, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	21 min
Apr 25, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	28 min
Apr 25, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	45 min
Apr 25, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	48 min
Apr 25, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	38 min
Apr 25, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	39 min
Apr 25, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	27 min
Apr 25, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	30 min
Apr 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	30 min
Apr 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	47 min

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.