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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Jackson, MS

February 24, 2001Neshoba County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 9:40 PM CST for Neshoba 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Feb 24, 2001, 9:40 PM CST (03:40 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2001, 10:15 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Neshoba County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 356 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 510 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 250341
TORJAN
MSC099-250415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
940 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NESHOBA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1015 PM CST

* AT 940 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO OVER SOUTHEAST LEAKE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR PHILADELPHIA AT 1010 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

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LAT...LON 3266 8916 3278 8931 3258 8931 3258 8924

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, 8:39 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, 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.