Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 721, NWS Jackson, MS

August 27, 2003Leflore County, Sunflower County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2003, 4:08 PM CDT for Leflore County, Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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: Aug 27, 2003, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2003, 4:35 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Leflore County, MS, Sunflower County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 2901 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

832 
WUUS54 KJAN 272108
SVRJAN
MSC083-133-272135-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
408 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SUNFLOWER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  LEFLORE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 435 PM CDT

* AT 408 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MILES AN 
  HOUR AND PENNY SIZED HAIL...5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOORHEAD...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  BE NEAR MOORHEAD AT 410 PM CDT
  BE NEAR SUNFLOWER AT 425 PM CDT
  BE NEAR DODDSVILLE...SCHLATER AT 435 PM CDT

PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 
AGENCY.  THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 
IN JACKSON.

LAT...LON 3338 9069 3330 9050 3361 9027 3371 9051

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 27, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	29 min
Aug 27, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	43 min
Aug 27, 1:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada	118 min
Aug 27, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	29 min
Aug 27, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	36 min
Aug 27, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	24 min
Aug 27, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	41 min
Aug 27, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	45 min
Aug 27, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	46 min
Aug 27, 3:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Attala	119 min
Aug 27, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha	60 min
Aug 27, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	20 min
Aug 27, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	37 min
Aug 27, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	50 min
Aug 27, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	42 min
Aug 27, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	27 min
Aug 27, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	40 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.