Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 1

January 19, 200110 counties in Alabama; 6 parishes in Louisiana; 20 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 19, 2001, 1:15 AM CST for 10 counties in Alabama; 6 parishes in Louisiana; 20 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 19, 2001, 1:15 AM CST (07:15 UTC)
Expired: Jan 19, 2001, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 36 counties

Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Washington County, AL, Jefferson Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Marion County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wayne County, MS

Warnings issued inside it

8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 19, 1:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	43 min
Jan 19, 1:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	32 min
Jan 19, 5:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	30 min
Jan 19, 5:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	36 min
Jan 19, 5:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Lamar	23 min
Jan 19, 5:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River	37 min
Jan 19, 5:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Jones	30 min
Jan 19, 5:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	36 min

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 19, 6:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 27 more	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2001 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2001 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Louisiana, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001

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.