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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Jackson, MS

May 30, 2001Kemper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2001, 4:35 PM CDT for Kemper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 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: May 30, 2001, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kemper County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 4:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	De Kalb, MS	Several trees and power lines were blown down.

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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 334 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 302135
TORJAN
MSC069-302200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
435 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 435 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF DE KALB...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH 
  OF MERIDIAN STATION...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  REMAIN OVER RURAL KEMPER COUNTY 

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING
DEBRIS.U

LAT...LON 3294 8864 3278 8873 3257 8831 3277 8819

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery, Webster	29 min
May 30, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	35 min
May 30, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	37 min
May 30, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	23 min
May 30, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	44 min
May 30, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper	50 min
May 30, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake, Neshoba	48 min
May 30, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	18 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.