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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Jackson, MS

April 6, 2003Richland Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2003, 11:04 AM CDT for Richland Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 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: Apr 6, 2003, 11:04 AM CDT (16:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2003, 11:50 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Richland Parish, LA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 6, 7:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 6, 10:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 758 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 061604
TORJAN
LAC083-061650-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1104 AM CDT SUN APR 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RICHLAND PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 1150 AM CDT

* AT 1104 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF START MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR START AT 1115 AM CDT
  BE NEAR RAYVILLE AT 1120 AM CDT
  BE NEAR HOLLY RIDGE AT 1140 AM CDT

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU
ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO..TAKE COVER
NOW

LAT...LON 3221 9198 3239 9200 3249 9193 3255 9176
          3267 9163 3258 9159 3257 9147

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 8:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	43 min
Apr 6, 8:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	43 min
Apr 6, 9:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	42 min
Apr 6, 9:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	34 min
Apr 6, 9:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	43 min
Apr 6, 9:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	47 min
Apr 6, 9:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	West Carroll	46 min
Apr 6, 9:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Richland, West Carroll	46 min
Apr 6, 10:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll	62 min
Apr 6, 10:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Richland	41 min
Apr 6, 10:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	East Carroll	2 hr
Apr 6, 11:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	43 min
Apr 6, 11:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	28 min
Apr 6, 11:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin	42 min
Apr 6, 11:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	60 min
Apr 6, 12:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	60 min
Apr 6, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	60 min
Apr 6, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Morehouse	43 min
Apr 6, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	West Carroll	45 min
Apr 6, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	46 min
Apr 6, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	28 min
Apr 6, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	46 min
Apr 6, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	60 min
Apr 6, 5:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	4 hr
Apr 6, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Richland	43 min
Apr 6, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin	43 min
Apr 6, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	44 min
Apr 6, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	48 min
Apr 6, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	46 min
Apr 6, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Tensas	43 min

Nearby

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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.