Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 10:11 PM CST for Neshoba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 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, 10:11 PM CST (04:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Neshoba County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 10:13 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Philadelphia, MS | A number of trees were blown down in a rural area. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 250411 TORJAN MSC099-250500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1011 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 1100 PM CST * AT 1011 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER PHILADELPHIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 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 62 LAT...LON 3280 8921 3265 8909 3277 8892 3293 8904
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, 9:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 35 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.