Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 59
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 12, 2001, 9:00 AM CST for 13 counties in Alabama; 19 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2001, 9:00 AM CST (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2001, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Bibb County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay 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, Smith County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 9:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 25 min |
| Mar 12, 10:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 45 min |
| Mar 12, 10:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 30 min |
| Mar 12, 10:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 57 min |
| Mar 12, 10:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 57 min |
| Mar 12, 10:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 24 min |
| Mar 12, 10:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 41 min |
| Mar 12, 11:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 27 min |
| Mar 12, 11:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas | 117 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 499 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 5 hr |
| Mar 12, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 5 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 12, 1:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Mar 12, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Franklin and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke, Clay and 25 more | 6 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.