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Tornado Warning 165, NWS Jackson, MS

May 17, 2003Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2003, 4:54 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 61 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 17, 2003, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2003, 5:55 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lauderdale 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 17, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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: 1346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 345 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 339 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 14.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 172154
TORJAN
MSC075-172255-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
454 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 555 PM CDT

* AT 454 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
WEAK TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLLINSVILLE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES 
WEST OF MERIDIAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR NELLIEBURG AT 455 PM CDT
  BE NEAR COLLINSVILLE...MERIDIAN AT 500 PM CDT
  BE NEAR OKATIBEE LAKE AT 505 PM CDT
  BE NEAR MARION AT 510 PM CDT
  BE NEAR WHYNOT AT 515 PM CDT
  BE NEAR MERIDIAN STATION...TOOMSUBA AT 520 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

LAT...LON 3257 8890 3224 8891 3224 8845 3257 8841

$$

CRAVEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	57 min
May 17, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	59 min
May 17, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	58 min
May 17, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	58 min
May 17, 5:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	43 min
May 17, 5:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	43 min
May 17, 6:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	58 min
May 17, 6:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sharkey	42 min
May 17, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	42 min
May 17, 8:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	32 min
May 17, 9:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	3 hr
May 17, 9:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake	41 min
May 17, 10:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah	44 min
May 17, 10:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	28 min
May 17, 10:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	62 min
May 17, 10:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	58 min
May 17, 10:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston	41 min
May 17, 10:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	44 min
May 17, 11:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	62 min
May 17, 11:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	45 min
May 17, 11:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	41 min
May 17, 11:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott	38 min
May 17, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	38 min
May 17, 12:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lincoln	45 min
May 17, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	28 min
May 17, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	42 min
May 17, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	56 min
May 17, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Scott	44 min
May 17, 3:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lawrence	29 min
May 17, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	39 min
May 17, 4:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	45 min
May 17, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN		40 min
May 17, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	61 min
May 17, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	32 min
May 17, 4:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington	47 min
May 17, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	13 min
May 17, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	29 min
May 17, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	60 min
May 17, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	25 min
May 17, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	45 min
May 17, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	37 min
May 17, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	42 min
May 17, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	44 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.