Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 88
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 3, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT for 10 counties in Arkansas; 24 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Webster County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, St. Francis | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, St. Francis | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 2598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1270 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
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 4, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Mississippi, Poinsett | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Wayne | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Attala, Choctaw, Clarke, George, Greene, Jackson and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Grenada and 18 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2001Every 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.