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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 421, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2003, 7:02 PM CDT for Webster County, Mississippi. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 2, 2003, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Webster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
479 WUUS54 KJAN 030002 RRA SVRJAN MSC155-030105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 703 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 805 PM CDT * AT 703 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF WALTHALL TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOMNOLEN...OR FROM 14 MILES EAST OF GRENADA TO 7 MILES NORTH OF DURANT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL... BE NEAR TOMNOLEN AT 730 PM CDT BE NEAR WALTHALL...EUPORA AT 735 PM CDT BE NEAR MANTEE...MATHISTON AT 750 PM CDT BE NEAR MABEN AT 755 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WINDS UP TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3373 8903 3358 8901 3348 8950 3372 8950 $$ CRAVEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson | 14 min |
| Jun 2, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Winston | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar, Marion | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 20 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.