Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 103, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 12:16 AM CST for Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 2001, 12:16 AM CST (06:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Morehouse Parish, LA
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 12:40 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Bastrop, LA | This tornado touched down 2 miles northeast of Bastrop at 12:40 AM. It traveled northeast for a distance of 17 miles and exited the parish 6 miles north of Bonita at 12:58 AM into Ashley County, Arkansas. The maximum path width of the storm in Morehouse Parish |
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 nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
224 WFUS54 KJAN 240618 TORJAN LAC067-240700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1216 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MOREHOUSE PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 100 AM CST * AT 1216 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BASTROP...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF SWARTZ...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR BASTROP AT 1230 AM CST TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW LAT...LON 3263 9216 3250 9201 3274 9168 3290 9187
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 2:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Richland | 37 min |
| Nov 24, 2:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll, West Carroll | 43 min |
| Nov 24, 5:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Tensas | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 6:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 42 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.