Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 15, 2003, 5:00 PM CST for Scott County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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
- Feb 15, 2003, 5:00 PM CST (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2003, 5:40 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scott 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 58 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 152300 CCA TORJAN MSC123-152340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 459 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SCOTT COUNTY * UNTIL 540 PM CST * AT 459 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 10 MILES SOUTH OF SCOTT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF FOREST...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN. IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. TAKE COVER NOW 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 3225 8960 3224 8943 3227 8935 3257 8935 $$ CRAVEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams | 3 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Marion | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 3:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 28 min |
| Feb 15, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 20 min |
| Feb 15, 4:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Smith | 29 min |
| Feb 15, 4:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 27 min |
| Feb 15, 4:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 27 min |
| Feb 15, 4:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 27 min |
| Feb 15, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Lamar | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 5:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 26 min |
| Feb 15, 5:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 30 min |
| Feb 15, 5:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 5:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 30 min |
| Feb 15, 5:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 47 min |
| Feb 15, 5:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 42 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.