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Tornado Warning 153, NWS Jackson, MS

May 14, 2003Copiah County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 14, 2003, 11:37 PM CDT for Copiah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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 14, 2003, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2003, 12:20 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Copiah 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 14, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 595 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

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

032 
WFUS54 KJAN 150437
TORJAN
MSC029-150520-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1136 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COPIAH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1220 AM CDT

* AT 1136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DENTVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 
  MILES NORTHWEST OF HAZLEHURST...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR GALLMAN...HAZLEHURST...CRYSTAL SPRINGS AT 1155 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 STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN
YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.

LAT...LON 3205 9058 3188 9063 3174 9016 3198 9022

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	47 min
May 14, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	21 min
May 14, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	30 min
May 14, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	30 min
May 14, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	45 min
May 14, 9:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Warren	2 hr
May 14, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	45 min
May 14, 10:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	43 min
May 14, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds	58 min
May 14, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	48 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.