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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 2001, 4:21 PM CST for Clarke County, Jasper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 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
- Feb 16, 2001, 4:21 PM CST (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clarke County, MS, Jasper 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 162222
TORJAN
MSC023-061-162300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
421 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
CLARKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 500 PM CST
* AT 421 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH OF HEIDELBERG...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST
OF LAUREL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
MOVE JUST SOUTH OF HEIDELBERG BY 430 PM CST
MOVE NEAR SHUBUTA BY 440 PM
MOTORISTS SHOULD LOOK FOR SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...TAKE COVER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. OVERPASSES ARE NOT
SAFE
62
LAT...LON 3192 8851 3208 8863 3204 8873 3200 8878
3198 8884 3182 8910 3185 8861The 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, 3:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Lamar | 41 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 |
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.