Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2001, 10:26 PM CST for DeSoto County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 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
- Nov 26, 2001, 10:26 PM CST (04:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2001, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County DeSoto County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 10:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedarview, MS | One home had its back porch blown off. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 6 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
- 617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
763
WFUS54 KMEG 270426
TORMEM
MSC033-270500-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1026 PM CST MON NOV 26 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
DESOTO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 1100 PM CST.
* AT 1021 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5
MILES EAST OF HERNANDO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 1100 PM CST INCLUDE...
LEWISBURG...
OLIVE BRANCH...
.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 3483 9004 3470 8989 3484 8972 3501 8972
3500 8998The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate | 43 min |
| Nov 26, 10:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 51 min |
| Nov 27, 12:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola | 39 min |
| Nov 27, 12:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton | 42 min |
| Nov 27, 12:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 36 min |
| Nov 27, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 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.