Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 8:13 PM CST for Humphreys County, Mississippi. It was in force for 17 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, 8:13 PM CST (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Humphreys County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:20 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Belzoni, MS | A brief F0 tornado touched down three miles north of Belzoni. The tornado blew down several trees, knocked down fences, and caused minor damage to a few structures. |
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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KJAN 250213
TORJAN
MSC053-250230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
813 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
HUMPHREYS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 830 PM CST
* AT 813 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A TORNADO ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELZONI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
55 MPH.
TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW
DO NOT RUN OUTSIDE TO FIND THE TORNADO - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
CANNOT GET UNDERGROUND...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
AVOID WINDOWS
64
LAT...LON 3332 9033 3324 9037 3327 9046 3333 9046
3333 9055 3328 9055 3326 9063 3323 9066
3318 9066 3309 9056 3324 9033The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 7:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 7:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Washington | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 7:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 8:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 8:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 8:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 51 min |
| Feb 24, 8:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 9:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 9:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 10:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 27 min |
| Feb 24, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Winston | 45 min |
| Feb 24, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower, Washington | 45 min |
| Feb 24, 11:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 11:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 11:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey, Washington | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 51 min |
| Feb 25, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 43 min |
| Feb 25, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 43 min |
| Feb 25, 12:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 24 min |
| Feb 25, 12:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 28 min |
| Feb 25, 1:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 25 min |
| Feb 25, 3:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 37 min |
| Feb 25, 3:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 32 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.