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Tornado Warning 143, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2001, 6:46 PM CST for Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 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, 6:46 PM CST (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2001, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Washington 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 26, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Nov 26, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
559 WFUS54 KJAN 270046 TORJAN MSC151-270130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 646 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 646 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHATHAM. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR ESTILL BY 655 PM CST BE NEAR ARCOLA AT 710 PM CST TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. LAT...LON 3315 9110 3304 9104 3326 9081 3335 9088
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower, Washington | 23 min |
| Nov 26, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 49 min |
| Nov 26, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 51 min |
| Nov 26, 7:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 48 min |
| Nov 26, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 55 min |
| Nov 26, 10:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 47 min |
| Nov 26, 10:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 41 min |
| Nov 26, 10:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 41 min |
| Nov 26, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 46 min |
| Nov 27, 6:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Nov 27, 8:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Nov 27, 12:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 46 min |
| Nov 27, 1:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington | 29 min |
| Nov 27, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 49 min |
| Nov 27, 1:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 41 min |
| Nov 27, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 40 min |
| Nov 27, 3:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 3 hr |
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.