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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 349, NWS Jackson, MS

May 28, 2001Grenada County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 2:50 AM CDT for Grenada County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2001, 2:50 AM CDT (07:50 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2001, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Grenada County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 1665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KJAN 280751
SVRJAN

MSC043-280830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
250 AM CDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRENADA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 330 AM CDT

* AT 250 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES WEST OF GRENADA...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  SOUTH OF CHARLESTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  BE NEAR GRENADA AT 320 AM CDT

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3383 9014 3372 9013 3369 8999 3369 8978
          3369 89R62 3381 8954

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, 10:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 10:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1005 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

ON SATELLITE VAPOR IMAGERY UPPER LOW WAS OVER GREAT LAKES...WITH
A SERIES OF SHORT WAVES ROTATING AROUND THE BROAD UPPER
TROUGH. ANOTHER SHORT WAVE WAS APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHERN
PLAINS ALONG AN MCS. ON THE SURFACE A WARM FRONT WAS NOTED
NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AS WELL AS
SCATTERED CONVECTION. SPC HAS A SLIGHT RISK FOR THE REGION TONIGHT.
SO WILL LEAVE A FEW SEVERE NORTH...ISOLATED SEVERE CENTRAL FOR ANY
REDEVELOPMENT IN THE CENTRAL AND NORTH...BETWEEN THIS EVENING AND DAWN.

.JAN...
MS...NONE.
LA...NONE.
AR...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 8:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
851 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0314 PM    KOSCIUSKO                 MS   FUNNEL CLOUD SOUTH OF
05/27/01   ATTALA                         KOSCIUSKO CITY LIMITS
                                          REPORTED BY AMATEUR
                                          RADIO OPERATOR.

Local storm report, May 27, 11:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1119 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

1100 PM    4 E CLEVELAND             MS   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/01   BOLIVAR                        BOLIVAR CD REPORTED
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL 4 MILES
                                          EAST OF CLEVELAND.

Local storm report, May 27, 11:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1131 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

1050 PM    DREW                      MS   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/27/01   SUNFLOWER                      NICKEL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY DREW
                                          POLICE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	40 min
May 27, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	28 min
May 28, 1:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leflore	117 min
May 28, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	23 min
May 28, 11:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar	37 min
May 28, 11:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	57 min
May 28, 3:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Rankin	28 min
May 28, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	27 min
May 28, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	17 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.