1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 31, 2:45 AM CST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 345 AM CDT THU MAY 31 2001 CONVECTION CALMING DOWN A BIT AT PRESENT OVER CWFA AS LOW LEVEL JET HAS WEAKENED. CONVECTION IS SERVING TO PUT DOWN A GOOD COLD POOL THOUGH WITH BOUNDARY STRETCHING FROM THE AR/LA/MS BORDER REGION TO NEAR KMEI. LOW LEVEL JET OF 35+ KNOTS ALLOWING CONVECTION TO CONTINUE TO FIRE OVER S AR. 00Z ETA SEEMED TO PICK UP ON THE COLD POOL THE CONVECTION HAS SET DOWN AND AGREE POSITION OF THIS BOUNDARY WILL PLAY A KEY ROLE IN CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL INITIALLY LATER TODAY. THINK GOOD DIFFERENTIAL HEATING ACROSS THIS BOUNDARY THIS MORNING WILL SERVE TO INITIATE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER C MS/NE LA BY NOON...PROPAGATING S BY THE AFTERNOON. FURTHER TO THE N...INCREASING VERTICAL MOTION DUE TO APPROACHING COLD CORE AND FAVORABLE QUADRANT OF H2 60+ KNOT JET ALONG WITH CAPES FROM 2000-3000 J/KG WARRANT HIGH END LIKELY POPS WITH SEVERE WORDING AS WELL...ESPECIALLY AS SURFACE FRONT MAKES ITS MOVE BY LATE AFTERNOON. EXPECT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE TONIGHT OVER ENTIRE CWFA AHEAD OF FRONT. THIS AREA WILL ALSO HAVE FAVORABLE UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT WITH COLD CORE MOVING THROUGH AND COUPLED H2 JET STRUCTURE. WILL MENTION SEVERE ALL AREAS TONIGHT AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY. ONLY A SHORT LIVED DRY OUT BEHIND THE FRONT AS RETURN FLOW SETS BACK UP FRI NIGHT. ETA/AVN BOTH SHOW A STRONGER FRONT TO ENTER THE CWFA SAT MORNING WITH DEEP VERTICAL MOTION. TIMING SOMEWHAT OF AN ISSUE AS AVN SEEMS A LITTLE FASTER THAN ETA. WILL UP CURRENT WORDING FROM SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. JAN 84/68/84/63 7712 MEI 85/67/83/62 7630 .JAN... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. 26
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 011200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 610 AM CDT THU MAY 31 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR OVER SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM RAYVILLE LOUISIANA...TO JACKSON...TO DE KALB. HOWEVER...ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE ENTIRE AREA. A WEAK WARM FRONT HAS MOVED NORTH OVER MISISSIPPI AND ARKANSAS... ALLOWING MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR TO PUSH INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY. A COLD FRONT...STRETCHING FROM MISSOURI INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...WILL MOVE EAST TODAY. THE COLD FRONT SHOULD EXTEND FROM A LINE NEAR ROSEDALE TO CROSSETT ARKANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THIS COLD FRONT WILL BE UNSTABLE ENOUGH FOR STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE BY THIS AFTERNOON...AS WINDS OVER THE REGION BECOME MORE FAVORABLE AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NECESSARY THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The transmission tower of a radio station was blown over. A number of trees and several utility poles were blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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