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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Jackson, MS

May 30, 2001Kemper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2001, 5:02 PM CDT for Kemper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 18 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 30, 2001, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2001, 5:20 PM CDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Kemper County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2001-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2001-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 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 302202
TORJAN
MSC069-302220-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 520 PM CDT

* AT 502 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER KEMPER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  MERIDIAN NAVAL AIR STATION...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.

LAT...LON 3281 8846 3265 8856 3249 8824 3267 8812

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 1:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMontgomery, Webster29 min
May 30, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChoctaw, Webster35 min
May 30, 2:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChoctaw37 min
May 30, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNoxubee, Winston23 min
May 30, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNoxubee, Winston44 min
May 30, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANKemper50 min
May 30, 4:35 PM CDTTornado WarningJANKemper25 min
May 30, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAttala, Leake, Neshoba48 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.