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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Memphis, TN

February 24, 2001Chickasaw County, Pontotoc County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2001, 9:41 PM CST for Chickasaw County, Pontotoc County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 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: Feb 24, 2001, 9:41 PM CST (03:41 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2001, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Chickasaw County, MS, Pontotoc 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
Feb 24, 9:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 420 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 489 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.2
Supercell composite: 13.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KMEG 250342
TORMEM
MSC017-115-250430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
941 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHICKASAW COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  PONTOTOC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST

* AT 937 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES          
  SOUTHWEST OF RANDOLPH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO THROUGH 1030 PM CST INCLUDE...
  NEW HOULKA...HOULKA...
  RANDOLPH...
  ALGOMA...
  PONTOTOC...TROY...
  ECRU...FURRS...

.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 3414 8924 3400 8910 3396 8891 3428 8880
          344L5 8901

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 7:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Quitman, Tallahatchie	47 min
Feb 24, 9:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Yalobusha	48 min
Feb 24, 9:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Union	33 min
Feb 24, 10:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie	27 min
Feb 24, 11:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	31 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.