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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Jackson, MS

March 5, 2003Kemper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2003, 5:50 PM CST for Kemper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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: Mar 5, 2003, 5:50 PM CST (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2003, 6:20 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kemper 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
Mar 5, 2:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 052350
TORJAN
MSC069-060020-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
548 PM CST WED MAR 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 620 PM CST

* AT 548 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF BLACK WATER...OR NEAR                   
  KLONDIKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR BLACK WATER AT 550 PM CST
  BE NEAR KIPLING AT 555 PM CST
  BE NEAR PORTERVILLE AT 600 PM CST
  BE NEAR SCOOBA AT 605 PM CST

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

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 3281 8889 3260 8890 3261 8844 3290 8841

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds, Rankin	38 min
Mar 5, 4:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	41 min
Mar 5, 4:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	119 min
Mar 5, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	45 min
Mar 5, 4:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	34 min
Mar 5, 5:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	45 min
Mar 5, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	57 min
Mar 5, 5:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	42 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.