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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 494, NWS Jackson, MS

June 27, 2001Scott County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 2:14 PM CDT for Scott County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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: Jun 27, 2001, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2001, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Scott County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 1401 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KJAN 271915
SVRJAN

MSC123-271945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
214 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SCOTT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 214 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF MORTON...MOVING NORTH AT 20
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  CROSS INTERSTATE 20 BY 235 PM
  BE NEAR MORTON AT 245 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 3256 8933 3257 8973 3228 8970 3225 8942

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 Jun 27, 1:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 1:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
110 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MID LEVEL LOW
HAS PROMPTED AN UPDATE OF THE ZONES TO INCREASE RAIN CHANCES IN
ALMOST ALL ZONES AND ADD THE MENTION OF POSSIBLE SEVERE AND HEAVY
RAINFALL.

.JAN...
MS...NONE.
LA...NONE.
AR...NONE.
02

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 11:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1128 AM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

1045 AM    HARDY                     MS   WIND DAMAGE
06/27/01   GRENADA                        E.M.A. REPORTED TREES
                                          DOWN.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 3:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee	27 min
Jun 27, 5:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	37 min
Jun 27, 6:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lowndes	2 hr
Jun 27, 8:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	39 min
Jun 27, 11:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	51 min
Jun 27, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	24 min
Jun 27, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	31 min
Jun 27, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	26 min
Jun 27, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	39 min
Jun 27, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	30 min
Jun 27, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	37 min
Jun 27, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	23 min
Jun 27, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sharkey, Washington	32 min
Jun 27, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	33 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.