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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Jackson, MS

February 24, 2001Chicot County, Arkansas

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 6:16 PM CST for Chicot County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports 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: Feb 24, 2001, 6:16 PM CST (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2001, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Chicot County, AR

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 24, 6:45 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Vlg, AR	A few buildings sustained minor roof damage. Several trees and power lines were blown down.
Feb 24, 6:50 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Bellaire, AR

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
Feb 24, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 420 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 489 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.2
Supercell composite: 13.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 250016
TORJAN
ARC017-250100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
616 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHICOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 616 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF LAKE
  VILLAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  REMAIN OVER RURAL CHICOT COUNTY 
  
TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

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LAT...LON 3329 9145 3324 9138 3343 9115 3350 9113
          3351 9125 3350 9140 3338 9145

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 6:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley	19 min
Feb 24, 10:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	45 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.