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Tornado Warning 168, NWS Jackson, MS

December 23, 2001Newton County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2001, 2:32 AM CST for Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 58 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: Dec 23, 2001, 2:32 AM CST (08:32 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 2001, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Newton County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 23, 3:10 AM CST	Tornado F0	Newton, MS	A brief tornado touchdown occurred west of city of Newton. It snapped off and twisted some trees in the area.

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 nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

903 
WFUS54 KJAN 230834
TORJAN
MSC101-230930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
232 AM CST SUN DEC 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NEWTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 330 AM CST

* AT 232 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   TORNADO 7 MILES  WEST OF NEWTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR DECATUR... AT 240 AM CST
  BE NEAR LITTLE ROCK AT 245 AM CST

LAT...LON 3257 8931 3224 8930 3228 8893 3257 8897

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 1:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	34 min
Dec 23, 1:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	25 min
Dec 23, 2:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	30 min
Dec 23, 2:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	32 min
Dec 23, 2:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Smith	62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.