2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
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 2, 1:15 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 215 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001 FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IS THREAT OF TSRA EARLY THIS EVENING. DEVELOPMENT CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE OVER SW AL ALONG THE SEABREEZE AND IN VICINITY OF UPPER LOW. DECENT MOISTURE CONVERGENCE OVER SE MS AT THIS TIME PER LAPS...WITH CONGESTUS DEVELOPMENT NOTED OVER S CENTRAL MS AND NORTH OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. WILL MENTION ISOLATED TSRA THIS EVENING SE AND SOUTH CENTRAL ZONES. REMAINDER OF THE SHORT TERM...MODELS AGREE ON UPPER LOW DROPPING SE TOWARD FL WITH UPPER RIDGE GRADUALLY SHIFTING EAST TOWARD LOWER MS VALLEY THROUGH FRIDAY. ETA SOUNDINGS SHOW 700 TO 500 MB TEMPS WARMING A COUPLE OF DEGREES NEXT 24 HOURS...WITH FURTHER WARMING INTO FRIDAY. WITH SURFACE FLOW REMAINING OUT OF THE ESE...NOT A SIGNIFICANT INFLUX OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE THROUGH THIS PERIOD...SO UPPER WARMING WILL RESULT IN DECREASING INSTABILITY/INCREASING CONVECTIVE INHIBITION THROUGH THE PERIOD. CANNOT COMPLETELY RULE OUT AN ISOLATED SHRA/TSRA THU...PARTICULARLY IN THE S AND W...BUT THREAT LOOKS TOO LOW TO MENTION AT THIS POINT. RISK APPEARS EVEN LOWER FRI. COULD BE SOME AREAS OF LOW CLOUDS ALONG AND WEST OF RIVER NEXT COUPLE OF NIGHTS...BUT SHOULD ERODE VERY QUICKLY IN THE AM. GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES VERY CLOSE AND APPEAR REASONABLE THROUGH THE PERIOD. IN THE EXTENDED...ENSEMBLES SHOW OPERATIONAL MRF IS AN OUTLIER IN SHOWING SUCH A STRONG UPPER LOW DROPPING SE THROUGH THE CENTRAL/NRN PLAINS ON MON/TUE. APPEARS A WEAKER UPPER LOW WILL TRACK FARTHER N BASED ON OTHER MODELS AND ENSEMBLES. NEW AVN STILL IMPLIES A WEAKENING IN UPPER RIDGE FOR SUNDAY WITH A WEAK SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS...AS WELL AS A BACKDOOR COLD FRONT DROPPING S INTO FORECAST AREA. HENCE WILL KEEP CHC TSRA SUNDAY. AFTER THIS...AVN/AVNX SHOW BOUNDARY TRACKING SLOWLY BACK TO THE NORTH WITH MEDIUM RANGE MODEL CONSENSUS SHOWING WEAK NW FLOW ALOFT ACROSS REGION. APPEARS LIKE A THREAT OF DIURNAL CONVECTION THROUGH THIS PERIOD...WITH BETTER CHANCE IN NORTHERN SECTIONS CLOSER TO BOUNDARY. WILL WORD ZONES IN THIS MANNER WITH TEMPERATURES A BIT ABOVE MRF MOS BASED ON OTHER MEDIUM RANG:E MODELS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... JAN 058/086 058/086 061 ---- MEI 055/084 055/085 055 1--- .JAN... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. 08
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 031200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 140 PM CDT WED MAY 02 2001 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTEDL THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 031200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 415 PM CDT WED MAY 02 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS... WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A MONTICELLO TO MERIDIAN LINE. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM COULD OCCUR IN LAMAR AND FORREST COUNTIES. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL COMBINE WITH DAYTIME HEATING TO PRODUCE A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI INTO THE EVENING HOURS. ENOUGH INSTABILITY IS PRESENT THAT AN ISOLATED STORM COULD BECOME SEVERE...MAINLY OVER LAMAR AND FORREST COUNTIES. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY SEVERE STORMS. TORNADOES ARE NOT EXPECTED. 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.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail of up to golfball size caused minor damage to buildings and vehicles in the Camp Shelby area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, May 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5245173, 5245174.