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Tornado Warning 69, NWS Jackson, MS

April 6, 2003Sharkey County, Yazoo County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2003, 5:38 PM CDT for Sharkey County, Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 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, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2003, 6:35 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Sharkey County, MS, Yazoo 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, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 76 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.

669 
WFUS54 KJAN 062238
TORJAN
MSC125-163-062335-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SHARKEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  YAZOO COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 635 PM CDT

* AT 535 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROLLING FORK...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR HOLLY BLUFF AT 550 PM CDT
  BE NEAR CAMBELLSVILLE AT 555 PM CDT
  BE NEAR YAZOO CITY AT 610 PM CDT
  BE NEAR BENTON AT 625 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF 
BALL SIZE CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW 

LAT...LON 3295 9089 3278 9093 3266 9030 3286 9002

$$

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, 1:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	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, 5:47 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.