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Tornado Warning 166, NWS Jackson, MS

December 13, 2001Rankin County, Scott County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Dec 13, 2001, 6:54 PM CST for Rankin County, Scott County, Mississippi. It was in force for 66 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: Dec 13, 2001, 6:54 PM CST (00:54 UTC)
Expired: Dec 13, 2001, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Rankin County, MS, Scott 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
Dec 13, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 458 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 569 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

634 
WFUS54 KJAN 140054
TORJAN
MSC079-121-123-140200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
654 PM CST THU DEC 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LEAKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  SCOTT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  NORTHERN RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 800 PM CST

* AT 654 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF LENA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF CANTON...
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR LENA AT 710 PM CST
  BE NEAR WALNUT GROVE...STANDING PINE AT 720 PM CST

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING 
WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW

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 3267 8971 3245 8990 3248 8935 3278 8938

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 13, 6:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	49 min
Dec 13, 6:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	62 min
Dec 13, 6:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	45 min
Dec 13, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	47 min
Dec 13, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	41 min
Dec 13, 6:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	46 min
Dec 13, 6:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	28 min
Dec 13, 6:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	66 min
Dec 13, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	33 min
Dec 13, 7:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	44 min
Dec 13, 7:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	38 min
Dec 13, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Winston	46 min
Dec 13, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	46 min
Dec 13, 7:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	50 min
Dec 13, 8:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	45 min
Dec 13, 9:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	47 min
Dec 13, 9:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones, Lamar	90 min

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.