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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jackson, MS

February 16, 2001Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 2001, 1:18 PM CST for Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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, 1:18 PM CST (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2001, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Oktibbeha 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 161918
TORJAN
MSC105-161945-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OKTIBBEHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 145 PM CST

* AT 118 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF STARKVILLE...MOVING EAST AT  
  45 MPH.
9
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR STARKVILLE AT 125 PM CST

RADAR SHOWS STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING - TAKE COVER
NOW!

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LAT...LON 3348 8906 3331 8900 3337 8870 3356 8868

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, 11:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	31 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, 1:24 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.