Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 12:55 PM CST for Neshoba County, Oktibbeha County, Winston County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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, 12:55 PM CST (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Neshoba County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Winston 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KJAN 161855
SVRJAN
MSC099-105-159-161945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1255 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WINSTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
NESHOBA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 145 PM CST
* AT 1255 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE
TO 8 MILES EAST OF CARTHAGE...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL...
BE NEAR LOUISVILLE...PHILADELPHIA AT 105 PM CST
BE NEAR STARKVILLE AT 115 PM CST
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. IF YOU CANNOT GET UNDERGROUND...GO
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID
WINDOWS
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LAT...LON 3320 8918 3305 8930 3268 8931 3272 8897
3308 8888 3332 8885 3356 8872The 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, 12:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds, Rankin | 61 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, 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 |
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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.