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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Jackson, MS

June 2, 2001Noxubee County, Winston County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2001, 4:57 PM CDT for Noxubee County, Winston County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 2, 2001, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2001, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Noxubee County, MS, Winston County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1871 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 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 022157
TORJAN
MSC103-159-022245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
457 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WINSTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  NOXUBEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 457 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER WINSTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  LOUISVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

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

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

LAT...LON 3329 8859 3328 8895 3321 8902 3310 8887

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	23 min
Jun 2, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	23 min
Jun 2, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	32 min
Jun 2, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	44 min
Jun 2, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	16 min
Jun 2, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	22 min
Jun 2, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	35 min
Jun 2, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	45 min
Jun 2, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	45 min
Jun 2, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	31 min
Jun 2, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	28 min
Jun 2, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	31 min
Jun 2, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	30 min

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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.