Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 117, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 8:54 AM CST for Leake County, Neshoba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 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, 8:54 AM CST (14:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Leake County, MS, Neshoba 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 5:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 14.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 241455 TORJAN MSC079-099-241530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 854 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NESHOBA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI LEAKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 930 AM CST * AT 854 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF CARTHAGE. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR EDINGURG BY 900 AM CST BE NEAR PEARL RIVER AT 905 AM CST BE NEAR PHILADELPHIA AT 910 AM CST THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. TAKE COVER NOW LAT...LON 3277 8964 3258 8941 3269 8895 3295 8920
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 1:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 48 min |
| Nov 24, 2:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 51 min |
| Nov 24, 3:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 3:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 44 min |
| Nov 24, 3:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey, Washington | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 4:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 27 min |
| Nov 24, 4:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 45 min |
| Nov 24, 4:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 5:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 50 min |
| Nov 24, 5:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 6:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Warren | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 6:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 40 min |
| Nov 24, 6:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake | 43 min |
| Nov 24, 6:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 45 min |
| Nov 24, 6:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 36 min |
| Nov 24, 7:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 34 min |
| Nov 24, 7:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll | 23 min |
| Nov 24, 7:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 29 min |
| Nov 24, 7:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 7:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 40 min |
| Nov 24, 8:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Montgomery | 41 min |
| Nov 24, 8:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 46 min |
| Nov 24, 8:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 27 min |
| Nov 24, 8:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 51 min |
| Nov 24, 8:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 28 min |
| Nov 24, 8:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 26 min |
| Nov 24, 8:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 24 min |
| Nov 24, 8:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 34 min |
| Nov 24, 8:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 8:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha, Winston | 26 min |
| Nov 24, 8:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clay | 32 min |
| Nov 24, 9:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 28 min |
| Nov 24, 9:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 9:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clay | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 9:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba, Scott | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 9:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 9:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Winston | 25 min |
| Nov 24, 9:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 32 min |
| Nov 24, 9:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 44 min |
| Nov 24, 9:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 41 min |
| Nov 24, 9:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 9:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 51 min |
| Nov 24, 9:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 32 min |
| Nov 24, 10:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Marion | 41 min |
| Nov 24, 10:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 52 min |
| Nov 24, 10:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 10:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 48 min |
| Nov 24, 10:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 27 min |
| Nov 24, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 45 min |
| Nov 24, 10:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 40 min |
| Nov 24, 10:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 36 min |
| Nov 24, 11:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones, Lamar | 44 min |
| Nov 24, 11:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee | 32 min |
| Nov 24, 11:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 46 min |
| Nov 24, 11:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 11:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 11:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 37 min |
| Nov 24, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 45 min |
| Nov 24, 11:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 25 min |
| Nov 24, 11:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 34 min |
| Nov 24, 12:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 28 min |
| Nov 24, 12:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 29 min |
| Nov 24, 12:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 46 min |
| Nov 24, 1:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 33 min |
| Nov 24, 1:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 38 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.