Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Jackson, MS

May 30, 2001Choctaw County, Webster County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2001, 2:10 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Webster County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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 30, 2001, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Choctaw County, MS, Webster County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 334 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KJAN 301911
SVRJAN

MSC019-155-301945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
210 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  CHOCTAW COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 210 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EUPORA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  BE NEAR MATHISTON AND CROSSING THE NATCHEZ TRACE AT 225 PM CDT

HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES.

WINDS UP TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

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

LAT...LON 3353 8908 3354 8914 3356 8918 3356 8924
          3359 8928 3360 8935 3348 8939 3346 8937
   g       3343 8940 3341 8933 3332 8908

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 30, 10:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 10:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1050 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2001

CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK FOR MOST PART. ONLY CONCERN IS NW
GROUPING WHERE LATEST SURFACE/CONVECTIVE ANALYSIS INDICATES
DEVELOPMENT OF MESOLOW...INDUCED BY CONVECTIVE COMPLEX OVER ERN
OK/AR AND INCREASED MIXING/INFLOW FROM THE SOUTH. SURFACE MOISTURE
CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY ARE INCREASING AS A RESULT OVER NW
COUNTIES. MAY NEED TO UPDATE NW ZONE GROUPING TO INCREASE PRECIP
CHANCES.

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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery, Webster	29 min
May 30, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	37 min
May 30, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	23 min
May 30, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	44 min
May 30, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	50 min
May 30, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	25 min
May 30, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake, Neshoba	48 min
May 30, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	18 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.