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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Jackson, MS

October 11, 2001Holmes County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 11, 2001, 2:57 PM CDT for Holmes 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: Oct 11, 2001, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Holmes 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
Oct 11, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 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.

803 
WFUS54 KJAN 111958
TORJAN
MSC051-112045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
257 PM CDT THU OCT 11 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 257 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF YAZOO CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST     
  AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  MOVE OVER RURAL PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST HOLMES COUNTY 

THIS TORNADO IS WRAPPED IN RAIN - IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR
IT COMING IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. TAKE COVER NOW

LAT...LON 3305 9038 3299 9028 3308 9014 3316 9031

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 11, 9:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	36 min
Oct 11, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	57 min
Oct 11, 1:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Warren	44 min
Oct 11, 1:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena	51 min
Oct 11, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower, Washington	42 min
Oct 11, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	45 min
Oct 11, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	45 min
Oct 11, 2:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys	41 min
Oct 11, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	34 min
Oct 11, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	50 min
Oct 11, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	47 min
Oct 11, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	39 min
Oct 11, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	43 min
Oct 11, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah	48 min
Oct 11, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	46 min
Oct 11, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	60 min
Oct 11, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	26 min
Oct 11, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	43 min
Oct 11, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	43 min
Oct 11, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	67 min
Oct 11, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Winston	51 min
Oct 11, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	23 min
Oct 11, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	47 min
Oct 11, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	39 min
Oct 11, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	64 min
Oct 11, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	44 min
Oct 11, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	40 min
Oct 11, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	61 min
Oct 11, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	67 min
Oct 11, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	20 min
Oct 11, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee	32 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.