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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Jackson, MS

March 1, 2001Forrest County, Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2001, 7:50 PM CST for Forrest County, Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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: Mar 1, 2001, 7:50 PM CST (01:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 2001, 8:30 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Forrest County, MS, Jones County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 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 020150
TORJAN
MSC035-067-020230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
750 PM CST THU MAR 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  SOUTHERN JONES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 830 PM CST

* AT 750 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF HATTIESBURG...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF
  WEST HATTIESBURG...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR HATTIESBURG AT 805 PM CST
  BE NEAR PETAL AT 815 PM CST

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...DAMAGING HAIaL AND STRONG
WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW!

80

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion	51 min
Mar 1, 7:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	49 min
Mar 1, 7:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams	3 hr
Mar 1, 7:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	33 min
Mar 1, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	45 min
Mar 1, 8:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	34 min
Mar 1, 8:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	46 min
Mar 1, 9:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	29 min
Mar 1, 10:18 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence	117 min
Mar 2, 1:05 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion	3 hr
Mar 2, 1:32 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	3 hr
Mar 2, 11:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	3 hr
Mar 2, 11:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson	3 hr
Mar 2, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	34 min
Mar 2, 12:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	25 min
Mar 2, 1:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	51 min
Mar 2, 1:53 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson, Smith	3 hr
Mar 2, 2:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	29 min
Mar 2, 2:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	41 min
Mar 2, 2:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	35 min
Mar 2, 2:28 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	92 min
Mar 2, 2:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	56 min
Mar 2, 2:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	25 min
Mar 2, 2:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	57 min
Mar 2, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	50 min
Mar 2, 3:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion	3 hr
Mar 2, 3:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams	4 hr
Mar 2, 4:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	3 hr

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.