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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Jackson, MS

February 16, 2001Yazoo County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 2001, 11:59 AM CST for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Feb 16, 2001, 11:59 AM CST (17:59 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2001, 12:30 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Yazoo County, MS

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 16, 10:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 161759
TORJAN
MSC163-161830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1159 AM CST FRI FEB 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  YAZOO COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1230 PM CST

* AT 1159 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER YAZOO COUNTY ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF              
  CANTON...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  REMAIN OVER RURAL YAZOO COUNTY 

THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN
YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.

THIS STORM IS PART OF A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS WHICH WILL PRODUCE 
DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN YAZOO COUNTY BETWEEN NOON AND 
1230 PM CST.

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LAT...LON 3282 9028 3266 9023 3273 9011 3289 9000

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 11:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	49 min
Feb 16, 11:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	41 min
Feb 16, 11:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	34 min
Feb 16, 11:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds	34 min
Feb 16, 11:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	52 min
Feb 16, 12:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds, Rankin	61 min
Feb 16, 12:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	57 min
Feb 16, 12:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	57 min
Feb 16, 12:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster	53 min
Feb 16, 12:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Oktibbeha, Winston	50 min
Feb 16, 1:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	41 min
Feb 16, 1:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	47 min
Feb 16, 1:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	27 min
Feb 16, 1:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lowndes, Noxubee	51 min
Feb 16, 1:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	50 min
Feb 16, 1:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	50 min
Feb 16, 1:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lowndes	19 min
Feb 16, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	43 min
Feb 16, 2:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper	40 min
Feb 16, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	36 min
Feb 16, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	39 min
Feb 16, 2:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	52 min
Feb 16, 2:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	49 min
Feb 16, 2:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	30 min
Feb 16, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	39 min
Feb 16, 3:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	27 min
Feb 16, 3:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	35 min
Feb 16, 3:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Lamar	41 min
Feb 16, 3:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	42 min
Feb 16, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	34 min
Feb 16, 3:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jones	43 min
Feb 16, 4:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	39 min
Feb 16, 4:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	39 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.