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Tornado Warning 97, NWS Jackson, MS

April 24, 2003Hinds County, Madison County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 5:54 PM CDT for Hinds County, Madison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 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, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2003, 6:35 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hinds County, MS, Madison 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 24, 2:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 17 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.

304 
WFUS54 KJAN 242254
TORJAN
MSC049-089-242335-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 635 PM CDT

* AT 552 PM CDT...AMATEUR RADIO WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF RIDGELAND...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR RIDGELAND AT 605 PM CDT
  BE NEAR MADISON AT 615 PM CDT
  BE NEAR GLUCKSTADT AT 625 PM CDT
  BE NEAR CANTON AT 635 PM CDT

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3238 9035 3231 9017 3258 8991 3263 9005

$$

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, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	45 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, 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

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.