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Tornado Warning 123, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2003, 7:25 PM CDT for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 20 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
- May 5, 2003, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sunflower 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
564 WFUS54 KJAN 060025 TORJAN MSC133-060045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 725 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUNFLOWER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 725 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SUNFLOWER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF SHELBY... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. LAT...LON 3398 9064 3383 9063 3383 9047 3398 9046 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 59 min |
| May 5, 7:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 3 hr |
| May 5, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 40 min |
| May 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 40 min |
| May 5, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 43 min |
| May 5, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 60 min |
| May 5, 8:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Grenada | 102 min |
| May 5, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada | 30 min |
| May 5, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Montgomery, Webster | 58 min |
| May 5, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 50 min |
| May 5, 8:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 3 hr |
| May 5, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 25 min |
| May 5, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clay | 31 min |
| May 5, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 30 min |
| May 5, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 27 min |
| May 5, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 41 min |
| May 5, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 30 min |
| May 6, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 22 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.