Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 81
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 3, 2001, 5:00 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2001, 5:00 AM CDT (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2001, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 72 counties
Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Dade County, GA, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 5:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Marion | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 5:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Etowah, St. Clair | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion, Winston | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Tate | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 6:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion, Winston | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Cleburne | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 7:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 7:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 7:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 8:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 19 min |
| Apr 3, 8:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair, Talladega | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 9:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 9:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 9:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 17 min |
| Apr 3, 9:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 9:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha | 65 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 6 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.