Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 6:53 PM CDT for Panola County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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
- Oct 24, 2001, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Panola County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sardis, MS | A few trees were knocked 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 753 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
681 WFUS54 KMEG 242353 TORMEM MSC107-250030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 653 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 730 PM CDT. * AT 650 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SARDIS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 730 PM CDT INCLUDE... GLENVILLE... .IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. .STAY TUNED TO THIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3455 8997 3434 8999 3430 8972 3456 8971
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tunica | 52 min |
| Oct 24, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 49 min |
| Oct 24, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Panola | 26 min |
| Oct 24, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 42 min |
| Oct 24, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.