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Tornado Warning 113, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 10:34 PM CDT for Kemper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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, 10:34 PM CDT (03:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2003, 11:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kemper 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.
818 WFUS54 KJAN 250334 TORJAN MSC069-250405- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1035 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KEMPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1105 PM CDT * AT 1035 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLACK WATER...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MERIDIAN STATION...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR PORTERVILLE AT 1045 PM CDT BE NEAR SCOOBA AT 1050 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 DO NOT STOP UNDER BRIDGES OR HIGHWAY OVERPASSES. THEY OFFER NO PROTECTION FROM VIOLENT WINDS. BLOCKING THE ROAD WILL PREVENT OTHERS FROM REACHING SAFE SHELTER. LAT...LON 3283 8886 3260 8882 3259 8840 3292 8836 $$
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, 10:55 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.