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Tornado Warning 148, NWS Jackson, MS

November 27, 2001Smith County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 27, 2001, 1:19 PM CST for Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 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 27, 2001, 1:19 PM CST (19:19 UTC)
Expired: Nov 27, 2001, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Smith County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

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

495 
WFUS54 KJAN 271919
TORJAN
MSC129-272000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
119 PM CST TUE NOV 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SMITH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 200 PM CST

* AT 119 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF MIZE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF
  COLLINS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR MIZE AT 125 PM CST

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING
DEBRIS.

LAT...LON 3180 8964 3179 8949 3189 8934 3210 8942

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, 10:13 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, 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.