Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 7:18 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 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
- Oct 24, 2001, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lafayette County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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, 7:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Abbeville, MS | Numerous trees and large tree limbs were blown down. |
| Oct 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford, MS | Numerous 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
044 WFUS54 KMEG 250017 TORMEM MSC071-250100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 718 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 800 PM CDT. * AT 717 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF OXFORD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 800 PM CDT INCLUDE... OXFORD... ABBEVILLE... CAMBRIDGE... DENMARK... .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 3456 8971 3431 8971 3426 8923 3451 8924
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 42 min |
| Oct 24, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 52 min |
| Oct 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss, Tishomingo | 62 min |
| Oct 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 62 min |
| Oct 24, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 40 min |
| Oct 24, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Monroe | 40 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.