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Tornado Warning 130, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2003, 9:24 PM CDT for Clay 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
- May 5, 2003, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2003, 9:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clay 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 |
| May 5, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.
000
WFUS54 KJAN 060224
TORJAN
MSC025-060255-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
924 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 955 PM CDT
* AT 924 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF MONTPELIER...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF
HOUSTON...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
BE NEAR WEST POINT AT 940 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
IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.
LAT...LON 3375 8901 3359 8900 3358 8874 3358 8861
3377 8873
$$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, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 25 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.