Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 138, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 6:36 AM CDT for Richland Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 39 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 7, 2003, 6:36 AM CDT (11:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Richland Parish, LA
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 7, 4:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 2206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 071136 CCA TORJAN LAC083-071215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED FOR COUNTY CODING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 628 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RICHLAND PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 715 AM CDT * AT 628 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF START....MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR START AT 645 AM CDT BE NEAR OAK RIDGE AT 650 AM CDT BE NEAR RAYVILLE AT 655 AM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...DAMAGING HAIL AND STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 3263 9216 3246 9220 3231 9174 3267 9166 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 28 min |
| May 7, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse, Richland | 62 min |
| May 7, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 47 min |
| May 7, 7:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Richland | 26 min |
| May 7, 7:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll, West Carroll | 46 min |
| May 7, 10:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 33 min |
| May 7, 10:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse, West Carroll | 47 min |
| May 7, 10:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 21 min |
| May 7, 11:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 31 min |
| May 7, 11:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 23 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.