Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 329, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2001, 12:34 PM CDT for Bolivar County, Sunflower County, Washington 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2001, 12:34 PM CDT (17:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2001, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bolivar County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Washington County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 948 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 27, 11:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 11:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1110 AM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001 MADE QUICK UPDATE TO ZONES TO REMOVE "EARLY" WORDING AND LOWER POPS IN CENTRAL ZONE GROUPS. AN ILL-DEFINED SURFACE WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM NE TX TO CNTRL MS CONTINUES TO DRIFT SLOWLY NORTH. BELIEVE THAT A FEW OUTFLOW/DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BOUDARIES EXIST AS WELL. WITH THE AIRMASS MOIST AND UNSTABLE (CAPES 1500 TO 3000 J/KG AND PRECIP WATER ~1.4) CONVECTION COULD FIRE ALONG ANY OF THESE BOUNDARIES AND HAVE LEFT HIGH CHANCE POPS. THE SEVERE THREAT IS LOW FOR THIS AFTN...BUT NOT LOW ENOUGH TO REMOVE MENTION OF SEVERE IN ZONES. NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED ATTM. .JAN... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. 43
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 27, 7:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
730 AM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 AM MS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 SCOTT HAIL OCCURRED COAL
BLUFF STATE PARK IN NRN
SCOTT COUNTY REPORTED
BY LEAKE COUNTY S.O.
EMPLOYEE
0430 AM NEWTON MS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 NEWTON ALSO 1 TREE DOWN
s REPORTED BY NEWTON S.O.Local storm report, May 27, 7:33 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
733 AM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 AM MS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 SCOTT HAIL OCCURRED COAL
BLUFF STATE PARK IN NRN
SCOTT COUNTY REPORTED
BY LEAKE COUNTY S.O.
EMPLOYEE
0430 AM NEWTON MS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 NEWTON ALSO 1 TREE DOWN
REPORTED BY NEWTON S.O.
0645 AM BRANDON MS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01 RANKIN REPORTED BY RANKIN EOCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 33 min |
| May 27, 3:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 28 min |
| May 27, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 27 min |
| May 27, 4:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 37 min |
| May 27, 5:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 37 min |
| May 27, 6:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 27 min |
| May 27, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 13 min |
| May 27, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 37 min |
| May 27, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes | 42 min |
| May 27, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 43 min |
| May 27, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Holmes | 47 min |
| May 27, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 40 min |
| May 27, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 45 min |
| May 27, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 29 min |
| May 27, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 40 min |
| May 27, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 41 min |
| May 27, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 50 min |
| May 27, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Winston | 41 min |
| May 27, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 24 min |
| May 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 30 min |
| May 27, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 40 min |
| May 27, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 43 min |
| May 27, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 26 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.