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Tornado Warning 107, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 9:31 PM CDT for Leake County, Neshoba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 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 24, 2003, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Leake County, MS, Neshoba 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 1927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.7
- Supercell composite
- 18.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
028 WFUS54 KJAN 250231 TORJAN MSC079-099-250315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 930 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LEAKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI NESHOBA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 930 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADDEN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF CARTHAGE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR PEARL RIVER AT 940 PM CDT BE NEAR NESHOBA AT 950 PM CDT BE NEAR PHILADELPHIA AT 955 PM CDT BE NEAR TUCKER AT 1000 PM CDT TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO..TAKE COVER NOW LAT...LON 3284 8948 3260 8944 3260 8892 3294 8893 $$
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, 9:39 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, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 47 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.