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Tornado Warning 109, NWS Jackson, MS

November 24, 2001East Carroll Parish, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 2:47 AM CST for East Carroll Parish, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 43 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: Nov 24, 2001, 2:47 AM CST (08:47 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties East Carroll Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 24, 1:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 607 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

110 
WFUS54 KJAN 240848
TORJAN
LAC035-123-240930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
247 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CARROLL PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
  EAST CARROLL PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 330 AM CST

* AT 247 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER EPPS...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF TALLULAH...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  MOVE JUST EAST OF EPPS BY 310 AM 
  REMAIN OVER RURAL EAST CARROLL PARISH 

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 3259 9156 3264 9121 3277 9142

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 12:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Morehouse	44 min
Nov 24, 2:23 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Richland	37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.