Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 8:25 PM CST for Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2001, 8:25 PM CST (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rankin County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1864 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 250226 TORJAN MSC121-250300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 825 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 825 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF BRANDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR BRANDON AT 830 PM CST BE NEAR PELAHATCHIE AT 845 PM CST TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW 76
The 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, 8:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 17 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.