1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 1:30 PM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 230 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2002 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGES WILL BE TIMING AND INTENSITY OF SHORTWAVES AND STRENGTH OF RIDGING FROM THE N. MODELS ONCE AGAIN DIFFER ON STRENGTH AND POSITION OF WAVES MOVING OVER REGION BENEATH HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE POSITIONED TO OUR NORTH. WATER VAPOR PIX SHOW DEFINED SHORTWAVES IN FLOW...MORE IN LINE WITH AVN THAN MORE ILL DEFINED ETA...SO WILL FOLLOW AVN SOLUTION. SHORTWAVE FORECAST TO DROP ACROSS REGION TONIGHT WITH ASSOCIATED UPPER JET MAX BUT MOST ACTIVITY WILL END DURING THE EVENING. NEXT WAVE FORECAST ACROSS SE MS CORNER TOMORROW BUT WITH LITTLE OR NO JET SUPPORT. UPPER TROF DEVELOPING TO THE E BECOMES MORE DEFINED SUNDAY AS CENTER OF BROAD TROF SHIFTS INTO THE NRN GULF. ANOTHER WAVE TO PUSH INTO ERN ZONES SUNDAY ABD CROSS THE REGION SUNDAY NIGHT. WEAK UPPER LEVEL SHEAR ZONE ALSO NOTED ACROSS SE COUNTIES TO LIFT SLOWLY NWD AND 850 MB LOW SHIFTS WWD INTO ERN ZONES BY 00Z MON. HOWEVER...MODELS SHOW SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN MOISTURE FIELD WITH MEAN RH VALUES LESS THAN 40 PERCENT AND PRECIPTABLE WATER BELOW 1.5 INCHES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WHILE. WILL KEEP BEST CHANCE OF RAIN EAST CENTRAL AND SRN POPS BUT SHOULD SEE MORE HIT AND MISS CONVECTION RATHER THAN LARGE CONVECTIVE ELEMENTS WITH HEAVY RAIN. ANOTHER VORT LOBE IS SHIFTED ACROSS THE REGION SUNDAY NIGHT. THE UPPER SHEAR ZONE CONTINUES AND THE 850 MB LOW WILL BE CENTERED OVER EAST CENTRAL MS BY MONDAY MORNING SO WILL KEEP AT LEAST SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR SUNDAY NIGHT. FALT UPPER TROUGH TO BE POSITIONED FROM TX COAST TO FL PANHANDLE BY MONDAY WITH INCREASING MOSITURE FIELDS AND AN 850 MB LOW ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES RETURN TO 2 INCHES AND ABOVE SO WILL INCREASE POPS TO AT LEAST CHANCE ALL OF REGION. UPPER TROUGH SHIFTS TO S AND W WITH TIME AND WILL RETURN TO MORE OF A SCATTERED AFTERNOON CONVECTION REGIME WITH ISOLATED CELLS THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING. BEST RAIN CHANCE WILL BE SRN AREAS THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD AS UPPER RIDGING HAMPERS CONVECTION N. PRELIM NUMBERS... JAN 72/94/71/93/73 1213 MEI 71/93/70/92/72 1324 .JAN... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. MS...NONE.
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 031200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 219 PM CDT FRI AUG 02 2002 ...THUNDERSTORMS... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...MAINLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. THE MAJORITY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. ACROSS THIS SAME GENERAL AREA...STRONG INSTABILITY AND SUPPORT FROM THE UPPER LEVEL JET STREAM...WILL BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING SEVERE. ANY SEVERE STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUST TO 60 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 3 AND 8 PM...AND DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET. THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down in the Myrick area. A tree also fell on a house, which resulted in minor damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, August 2002
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