Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2003, 7:55 PM CDT for Madison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 8:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Madison 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, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
268 WUUS54 KJAN 030055 SVRJAN MSC089-030125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 755 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 825 PM CDT * AT 755 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 4 MILES WEST OF CAMDEN TO 17 MILES SOUTH OF CAMDEN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL... BE NEAR CAMDEN AT 800 PM CDT HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES SUDDENLY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY. LAT...LON 3287 8996 3253 8994 3265 8974 3288 8975 $$
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, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 63 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, 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
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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.