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Tornado Warning 172, NWS Jackson, MS

May 17, 2003Clarke County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2003, 7:24 PM CDT for Clarke County, Mississippi. It was in force for 21 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, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clarke 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 180024
TORJAN
MSC023-180045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES       
  SOUTHWEST OF CRANDALL...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF             
  QUITMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  MOVE NEAR CRANDALL IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MINUTES

IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.

LAT...LON 3203 8862 3186 8867 3190 8848 3211 8845

$$

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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.