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Tornado Warning 94, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 5:20 PM CDT for Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi. 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, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2003, 6:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Forrest County, MS, Lamar County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
700
WFUS54 KJAN 242220
TORJAN
MSC035-073-242305-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
520 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
LAMAR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 605 PM CDT
* AT 520 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMP SHELBY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
NORTHEAST OF POPLARVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
BE NEAR CAMP SHELBY AT 540 PM CDT
RADAR SHOWS STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING - TAKE COVER
NOW
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
BE READY FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...VIOLENT WINDS AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO.
MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE NOW
LAT...LON 3104 8953 3101 8933 3092 8932 3113 8914
3134 8915
$$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 | Adams | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 36 min |
| Apr 24, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 39 min |
| Apr 24, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 58 min |
| Apr 24, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 62 min |
| Apr 24, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 28 min |
| Apr 24, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 4:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 32 min |
| Apr 24, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Madison, Neshoba and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 24, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Winston | 60 min |
| Apr 24, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 19 min |
| Apr 24, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Winston | 31 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.