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Tornado Warning 140, NWS Jackson, MS

November 26, 2001East Carroll Parish, Louisiana; Issaquena County, Sharkey County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2001, 5:18 PM CST for East Carroll Parish, Louisiana; Issaquena County, Sharkey County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 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 26, 2001, 5:18 PM CST (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Nov 26, 2001, 6:00 PM CST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties East Carroll Parish, LA, Issaquena County, MS, Sharkey County, MS

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Nov 26, 3:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2001-11-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2001-11-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

750 
WFUS54 KJAN 262318
TORJAN
LAC035-MSC055-125-270000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
518 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CARROLL PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
  SHARKEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  ISSAQUENA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 518 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAKE PROVIDENCE...MOVING NORTHEAST 
AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
   BE NEAR ROLLING FORK AT 535 PM CST
  BE NEAR ANGUILLA AT 545 PM CST

LAT...LON 3264 9113 3276 9127 3302 9101 3302 9092
          3310 9090 3294 9074

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 26, 4:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANEast Carroll37 min
Nov 26, 4:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison37 min
Nov 26, 5:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRichland23 min
Nov 26, 5:38 PM CSTTornado WarningJANWest Carroll37 min
Nov 26, 4:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANGrenada37 min
Nov 26, 4:44 PM CSTTornado WarningJANGrenada31 min
Nov 26, 4:57 PM CSTTornado WarningJANCopiah33 min
Nov 26, 5:10 PM CSTTornado WarningJANGrenada35 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2001Tornado Warnings in Louisiana, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.