Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 146, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2001, 10:13 PM CST for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 26, 2001, 10:13 PM CST (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2001, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bolivar County, MS
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 10:45 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Pace, MS |
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, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
903 WFUS54 KJAN 270414 TORJAN MSC011-270500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1013 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1100 PM CST * AT 1013 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENOIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR BENOIT AT 1030 PM CST BE NEAR BOYLE AT 1055 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 LAT...LON 3365 9117 3354 9111 3365 9070 3393 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, 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, 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, 10:34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.