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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Jackson, MS

April 6, 2003Hinds County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2003, 1:53 PM CDT for Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2003, 2:40 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hinds 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
Apr 6, 10:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 30 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.

657 
WFUS54 KJAN 061853
TORJAN
MSC049-061940-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 240 PM CDT

* AT 153 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOLTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF
  CLINTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

IN ADDITION...VERY LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND GOLFBALLS 
CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.


* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR BOLTON...RAYMOND AT 155 PM CDT
  BE NEAR CLINTON AT 205 PM CDT
  BE NEAR JACKSON AT 220 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3223 9056 3240 9058 3240 9009 3223 9019

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	46 min
Apr 6, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	45 min
Apr 6, 10:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	46 min
Apr 6, 10:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena	42 min
Apr 6, 10:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	61 min
Apr 6, 10:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Issaquena	2 hr
Apr 6, 11:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sharkey	43 min
Apr 6, 11:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sharkey	41 min
Apr 6, 11:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	44 min
Apr 6, 11:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	60 min
Apr 6, 12:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Warren	60 min
Apr 6, 12:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	59 min
Apr 6, 12:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Yazoo	2 hr
Apr 6, 12:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Warren	3 hr
Apr 6, 12:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Warren	60 min
Apr 6, 12:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	43 min
Apr 6, 1:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	26 min
Apr 6, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	47 min
Apr 6, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	58 min
Apr 6, 1:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Scott	58 min
Apr 6, 1:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	44 min
Apr 6, 1:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leake, Rankin, Scott	2 hr
Apr 6, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Rankin	47 min
Apr 6, 2:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton	43 min
Apr 6, 2:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	42 min
Apr 6, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	60 min
Apr 6, 2:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	81 min
Apr 6, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	45 min
Apr 6, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	44 min
Apr 6, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	44 min
Apr 6, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	46 min
Apr 6, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	44 min
Apr 6, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	43 min
Apr 6, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	42 min
Apr 6, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	46 min
Apr 6, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Washington	46 min
Apr 6, 5:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Montgomery, Sunflower	2 hr
Apr 6, 5:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	4 hr
Apr 6, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys	44 min
Apr 6, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena	45 min
Apr 6, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sharkey, Yazoo	57 min
Apr 6, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	48 min
Apr 6, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN		42 min
Apr 6, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore	40 min
Apr 6, 6:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	5 hr
Apr 6, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Warren	45 min
Apr 6, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	75 min
Apr 6, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	59 min
Apr 6, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	51 min
Apr 6, 6:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake, Rankin, Scott	4 hr
Apr 6, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	61 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.