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Tornado Warning 124, NWS Jackson, MS

May 5, 2003Bolivar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2003, 8:10 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bolivar County, MS

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 060030
TORJAN
MSC011-060110-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
730 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 810 PM CDT

* AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF WINSTONVILLE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF
  ROSEDALE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR WINSTONVILLE...SHELBY...MERIGOLD AT 740 PM CDT
  BE NEAR MOUND BAYOU...DUNCAN AT 745 PM CDT

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 3399 9094 3378 9098 3383 9069 3408 9068

$$

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, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower	20 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.