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Tornado Warning 90, NWS Jackson, MS

April 24, 2003West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 4:02 PM CDT for West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 43 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 24, 2003, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County West Carroll 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 24, 2:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 458 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 741 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 439 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 242102
TORJAN
LAC123-242145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
402 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CARROLL PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 402 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF EPPS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  RAYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR EPPS AT 425 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3272 9161 3259 9157 3259 9146 3264 9140
          3278 9138 3278 9158

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 9:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Concordia	41 min
Apr 24, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	52 min
Apr 24, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	47 min
Apr 24, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Morehouse, Richland	43 min
Apr 24, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll	45 min
Apr 24, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Concordia	44 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.