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Tornado Warning 91, NWS Jackson, MS

April 24, 2003East Carroll Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 4:25 PM CDT for East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 45 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, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2003, 5:10 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County East 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 242125
TORJAN
LAC035-242210-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 510 PM CDT

* AT 425 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 18 MILES WEST OF TRANSYLVANIA...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF LAKE PROVIDENCE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR LAKE PROVIDENCE AT 450 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3287 9130 3267 9137 3256 9139 3256 9116
          3266 9115 3273 9110 3276 9118 3294 9110
          3288 9119 3300 9124

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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, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	West Carroll	43 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.