Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 2001, 3:29 PM CST for Covington County, Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2001, 3:29 PM CST (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 4:10 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Covington County, MS, Lamar County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 3:39 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Sumrall, MS | |
| Feb 16, 3:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Sanford, MS | Several trees were blown down in a rural area. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 WFUS54 KJAN 162130 TORJAN MSC031-073-162210- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 329 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LAMAR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 410 PM CST * AT 329 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF SUMRALL...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR SUMRALL AT 335 PM CST THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD BE READY FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIiL...VIOLENT WINDS AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO. MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE NOW! 62
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, 12:14 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, 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, 3:33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.