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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Jackson, MS

May 28, 2001Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 28, 2001, 3:02 PM CDT for Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 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: May 28, 2001, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Rankin 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
May 28, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 25 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 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 282003
TORJAN

MSC121-282030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
302 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 302 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF BRANDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20  
  MPH.

* THE TORNOADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  MOVE NEAR PELAHATCHIE  

LAT...LON 3232 8989 3230 8974 3240 8972 3242 8981

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	40 min
May 27, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	28 min
May 28, 1:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leflore	117 min
May 28, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	23 min
May 28, 2:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	40 min
May 28, 11:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar	37 min
May 28, 11:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	57 min
May 28, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	27 min
May 28, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	17 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.