Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 515
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2001, 2:45 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2001, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 73 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Catahoula Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair, Shelby | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne, Talladega | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Coosa | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 29 min |
| Jul 5, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha, Winston | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Madison | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Madison | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1075 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 875 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, Cullman and 16 more | 5 hr |
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.