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Tornado Warning 67, NWS Jackson, MS

June 13, 2001Forrest County, Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 4:23 PM CDT for Forrest County, Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 13, 2001, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Forrest County, MS, Jones County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hattiesburg, MS	A number of trees were blown down from northwestern sections of Hattiesburg (Rawls Springs area) to about 5 miles northwest of Hattiesburg near the Covington County line.
Jun 13, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Laurel, MS	The pilot of a small plane reported seeing a tornado for a brief period of time about 10 miles south of Laurel. There were no reports of damage from this short lived tornado.

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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 1185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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.

381 
WFUS54 KJAN 132124
TORJAN
MSC035-067-132200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
423 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  JONES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 423 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  ELLISVILLE...OR ALONG HIGHWAY 98 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HATTIESBURG
  ...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR WEST HATTIESBURG AT 430 PM
  BE NEAR ELLISVILLE AT 455 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3131 8932 3152 8906 3167 8924 3153 8939
          3135 8943 3135 8935

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 11:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	116 min
Jun 13, 12:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	2 hr
Jun 13, 1:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	2 hr
Jun 13, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	31 min
Jun 13, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	36 min
Jun 13, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	27 min
Jun 13, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	41 min
Jun 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	34 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.