Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 105, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2003, 8:56 AM CDT for Calhoun County, Chickasaw County, Mississippi. It was in force for 64 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
- May 7, 2003, 8:56 AM CDT (13:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMEG 071356 TORMEM MSC013-017-071500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 854 AM CDT WED MAY 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI CHICKASAW COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1000 AM CDT. * AT 849 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF BIG CREEK...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 1000 AM CDT INCLUDE... DERMA... VARDAMAN... PYLAND... HOUSTON... .IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. .STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5. LAT...LON 3394 8944 3376 8943 3377 8870 3400 8870
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 37 min |
| May 6, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 47 min |
| May 6, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 60 min |
| May 6, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 56 min |
| May 6, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 48 min |
| May 6, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 22 min |
| May 6, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 49 min |
| May 6, 10:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 23 min |
| May 7, 6:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 24 min |
| May 7, 6:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Quitman, Tallahatchie | 30 min |
| May 7, 7:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 32 min |
| May 7, 7:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 51 min |
| May 7, 8:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun | 40 min |
| May 7, 9:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 53 min |
| May 7, 10:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 27 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.