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Tornado Warning 129, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2003, 9:10 PM CDT for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 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, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2003, 9:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 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), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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 |
| May 5, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.
005 WFUS54 KJAN 060210 TORJAN MSC011-060235- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 910 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 935 PM CDT * AT 910 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER PACE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR MERIGOLD...RENOVA...CLEVELAND...WINSTONVILLE AT 915 PM CDT BE NEAR MOUND BAYOU AT 920 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 A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD BE READY FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...VIOLENT WINDS AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO. MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE NOW LAT...LON 3384 9099 3367 9093 3374 9068 3396 9067 $$
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, 7:30 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, 9:24 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.