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Tornado Warning 173, NWS Jackson, MS

June 2, 2003Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2003, 9:44 PM CDT for Lauderdale 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: Jun 2, 2003, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lauderdale County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 90 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 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 030244
TORJAN
MSC075-030315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
944 PM CDT MON JUN 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 944 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST  
  OF WHYNOT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MERIDIAN...MOVING EAST   
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR WHYNOT AT 945 PM CDT
  BE NEAR TOOMSUBA AT 950 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

LAT...LON 3238 8869 3222 8861 3225 8844 3247 8842

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	43 min
Jun 2, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	63 min
Jun 2, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	58 min
Jun 2, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	42 min
Jun 2, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	58 min
Jun 2, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson	14 min
Jun 2, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith	59 min
Jun 2, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes	58 min
Jun 2, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	59 min
Jun 2, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	46 min
Jun 2, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	30 min
Jun 2, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	59 min
Jun 2, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	61 min
Jun 2, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	58 min
Jun 2, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	49 min
Jun 2, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	61 min
Jun 2, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	60 min
Jun 2, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	60 min
Jun 3, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	30 min
Jun 3, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	43 min
Jun 3, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	20 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.