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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Jackson, MS

February 16, 2001Copiah County, Hinds County, Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 12:14 PM CST for Copiah County, Hinds County, Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 61 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: Feb 16, 2001, 12:14 PM CST (18:14 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2001, 1:15 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Copiah County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Rankin 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
Feb 16, 10:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 20 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: 261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KJAN 161815
SVRJAN
MSC029-049-121-161915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1214 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  COPIAH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 115 PM CST

* AT 1214 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 9 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON TO 22   
  MILES WEST OF CRYSTAL SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL...
  BE NEAR JACKSON AT 1220 PM CST
  BE NEAR FLOWOOD...RICHLAND...TERRY AT 1230 PM CST
  BE NEAR CRYSTAL SPRINGS...PEARL AT 1235 PM CST
  BE NEAR BRANDON...FLORENCE AT 1240 PM CST
  BE NEAR PELAHATCHIE AT 1255 PM CST

DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST 
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST.

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LAT...LON 3185 9071 3194 9045 3198 9022 3205 9023
          3209 9008 3210 8976 3247 8975 3257 8978
          3256 8988 3242 9005 3238 9031 3199 9068
          3193 9072

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 Feb 16, 10:30 AM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 10:30 AM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1030 AM CST FRI FEB 16 2001

UPDATED ZONES TO INCLUDE TORNADO WATCH WORDING AND TWEAK THE SEVERE
WORDING A BIT IN ALL ZONES.

.JAN...
MS...NONE.
LA...NONE.
AR...NONE.
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 16, 12:13 PM CST, 1 minute before

JANWRKLSR 000
TTAA00 KJAN DDHHMM

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1213 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

1130 AM    YAZOO CITY                MS   WIND DAMAGE
02/16/01   YAZOO                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY YAZOO P.D.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 11:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	49 min
Feb 16, 11:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	41 min
Feb 16, 11:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	34 min
Feb 16, 11:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds	34 min
Feb 16, 11:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	52 min
Feb 16, 11:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	31 min
Feb 16, 12:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	57 min
Feb 16, 12:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	57 min
Feb 16, 12:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster	53 min
Feb 16, 12:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Oktibbeha, Winston	50 min
Feb 16, 1:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	41 min
Feb 16, 1:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	47 min
Feb 16, 1:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	27 min
Feb 16, 1:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lowndes, Noxubee	51 min
Feb 16, 1:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	50 min
Feb 16, 1:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	50 min
Feb 16, 1:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lowndes	19 min
Feb 16, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	43 min
Feb 16, 2:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	40 min
Feb 16, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	36 min
Feb 16, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	39 min
Feb 16, 2:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	52 min
Feb 16, 2:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	49 min
Feb 16, 2:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	30 min
Feb 16, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	39 min
Feb 16, 3:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	27 min
Feb 16, 3:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	35 min
Feb 16, 3:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Lamar	41 min
Feb 16, 3:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	42 min
Feb 16, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	34 min
Feb 16, 3:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	43 min
Feb 16, 4:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	39 min
Feb 16, 4:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	39 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.