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Tornado Warning 144, NWS Jackson, MS

November 26, 2001Leflore County, Sunflower County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2001, 7:12 PM CST for Leflore County, Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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, 7:12 PM CST (01:12 UTC)
Expired: Nov 26, 2001, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Leflore County, MS, Sunflower 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

777 
WFUS54 KJAN 270113
TORJAN
MSC083-133-270200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SUNFLOWER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  LEFLORE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 800 PM CST

* AT 712 PM CST...SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO ABOUT 3 MILES 
NORTH OF MOORHEAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR ITTA BENA AT 725 PM CST
  BE NEAR GREENWOOD AT 735 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 3351 9064 3338 9049 3351 9010 3376 9033

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, 6:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Washington	44 min
Nov 26, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	51 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.