Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 137, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2001, 4:44 PM CST for Grenada County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 26, 2001, 4:44 PM CST (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2001, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grenada County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Leflore, MS | The tornado was first sighted near Leflore. The tornado tracked northeast through Holcomb and ended about four miles northeast of Dubard after staying on the ground for about 12 miles. The tornado destroyed a mobile home, caused major damage to two houses, one |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
802 WFUS54 KJAN 262244 TORJAN MSC043-262315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 444 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRENADA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 515 PM CST * AT 444 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER GRENADA COUNTY...NEAR LEFLORE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... REMAIN OVER RURAL GRENADA COUNTY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 37 min |
| Nov 26, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 37 min |
| Nov 26, 4:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 33 min |
| Nov 26, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada | 35 min |
| Nov 26, 5:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 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.