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Tornado Warning 128, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 10:08 AM CST for Lawrence County, Lincoln County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 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, 10:08 AM CST (16:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Lawrence County, MS, Lincoln 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 |
| Nov 24, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 241608 TORJAN MSC077-085-241700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1008 AM CST SAT NOV 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1100 AM CST * AT 1008 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES EAST OF BROOKHAVEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR NEW HEBRON AT 1040 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 3160 9045 3146 9022 3174 8996 3174 9015
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, 8:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba | 36 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, 10:10 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.