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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 8:39 PM CST for Carroll County, Grenada County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2001, 8:39 PM CST (02:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, MS, Grenada County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:46 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 53 M | Malmaison, MS | The Greenwood Airport, which is located in Carroll County, had a peak wind gust of 61 mph at 846 PM. |
| Feb 24, 8:47 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Malmaison, MS | |
| Feb 24, 9:05 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Grenada, MS | This tornado produced F3 damage shortly after it touched down three miles southeast of downtown Greenwood. The storm traveled northeastward about four miles until it reached the Carroll County line about four miles east of Greenwood. In the Greenwood area of L |
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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 250240 TORJAN MSC015-043-250330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 839 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRENADA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 930 PM CST * AT 839 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST GRENADA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR HOLCOMB AT 855 PM CST MOTORISTS SHOULD LOOK FOR SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE COVER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. OVERPASSES ARE NOT SAFE TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW 64
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, 8:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 8:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 30 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 |
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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.