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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 6:26 PM CST for Ashley County, Arkansas. It was in force for 19 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
- Feb 24, 2001, 6:26 PM CST (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ashley County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Lake Vlg, AR | An F0 tornado was sited on the ground briefly in open country. |
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, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 2039 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 250027 TORJAN ARC003-250045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 626 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ASHLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CST * AT 626 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER PORTLAND...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF WILMOT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... AFFECT HIGHWAY 165 SOUTH OF MONTROSE...AND HIGHWAY 82 EAST OF MONTROSE. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW 84 LAT...LON 3321 9165 3310 9153 3312 9146 3335 9146
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Chicot | 44 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.