Tornadoes · United States · Mississippi · 2005

F0 tornado, Cruger to Acona, Mississippi, September 24, 2005

Name: F0 tornado, Cruger to Acona, Mississippi, September 24, 2005
Start: 2005-09-24T23:25:00.000Z
Location: Cruger to Acona, Mississippi

From Cruger to Acona, this F0 tornado ran 1.0 miles across Holmes County on September 24, 2005, touching down at 6:25 PM CDT and reaching 50 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $10,000 of property damage.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: F0
Date: September 24, 2005
Touchdown: 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
Path length: 1.0 miles (1.6 km)
Path width: 50 yards (46 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
County: Holmes County
Touchdown point: 33.230, -90.050
Lift-off point: 33.230, -90.050
Record number: 457

What the Weather Service recorded

This tornado touched down just north-northwest of Cruger, in Holmes county, on the extreme southern end of Mosquito Lake and tracked northwest for 9 miles across southern Leflore county. As the tornado tracked northwest toward the Phillipstown Community, hundreds of trees were snapped and uprooted across Mosquito Lake. Between Phillipstown and Quito was where the most significant damage occurred. Two homes and a church were significantly damaged and hunting lodge was totally destroyed with its contents and debris scattered half a mile along the path. A steel framed cotton gin was nearly destroyed in Quito with nearly all of the roof gone and many walls taken down. A seed warehouse at this location was also significantly damaged. Additionally, hundreds of trees were damaged along with several bails of picked cotton that were scattered across a few fields. The tornado dissipated just to the northwest of Quito.

This brief tornado damaged a number of large limbs and power lines when it touched down just southwest of the Acona Community.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

23 minutes of warning. NWS JAN issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:02 UTC, 23 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 23:30 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
12:00 UTC	00:00 UTC	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN
19:26 UTC	19:57 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
21:19 UTC	21:45 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
21:23 UTC	21:37 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
21:48 UTC	22:15 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
21:57 UTC	22:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
22:16 UTC	22:45 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
22:18 UTC	22:45 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
22:28 UTC	23:00 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
22:47 UTC	23:15 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
23:02 UTC	23:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
23:15 UTC	00:00 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
23:35 UTC	00:15 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
00:00 UTC	00:45 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
00:13 UTC	00:45 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
00:45 UTC	01:21 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 20:09 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, 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 tornado touched down at Sep 24, 5:41 PM CDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 24, 5:41 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
541 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

.DISCUSSION...
SPIRAL TENTACLES EMANATING FROM RITA HAVE LAID ACROSS THE FORECAST
AREA TODAY...GENERALLY WREAKING HAVOC. THE COMBINATION OF
SHEAR...INSTABILITY AND A TOUCH OF MID LEVEL DRY AIR WERE ENOUGH TO
FUEL AN OUTBREAK OF MINI-SUPERCELLS WHICH...GENERALLY RACED NORTH
NORTHWEST AT 50 MPH ACROSS THE ARKLAMISS. THE LOOK OF STORMS ON
RADAR INDICATES THAT PERHAPS THE GREATEST LOW LEVEL SHEAR IS
SHIFTING NORTHWEST TO THE DELTA REGION...ALTHOUGH THE TORNADO RISK
SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE DURATION OF THE TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL
COUNTIES AND PARISHES.

FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT...TROPICAL STORM RITA WILL PLOD SLOWLY
TOWARD THE REGION AS WESTERLIES TO THE NORTH BEGIN TO INFLUENCE THE
FEATURES MOVEMENT. LOOK FOR AT LEAST ISOLATED THUNDER TO REMAIN A
POSSIBILITY THROUGH THE NIGHT BUT...WANING SURFACE-BASED INSTABILITY
THIS EVENING SHOULD FORTUNATELY LIMIT SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL
SHORTLY AFTER SUNDOWN. WITH THE REMNANTS OF RITA CLOSING IN EXPECT
GRADIENT WINDS TO REMAIN GUSTY THOUGH. THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE
CONTINUED THIS EVENING IN WESTERN ZONES AND ALL BUT THE ERN THIRD OF
THE FORECAST AREA SHOULD BE COVERED BY A LAKE WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT.
IN ADDITION...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE CONTINUE THROUGH THE
REST OF THE NIGHT IN SOUTHWEST ZONES. ALL AREAS OF THE FORECAST AREA
COULD RECEIVE UPWARDS OF AN INCH OR TWO OF RAIN IN DOWNPOURS
TONIGHT...BUT ONLY IN THE SOUTHWEST SHOULD THESE AMOUNTS CAUSE
FLOODING CONCERNS.

LOOK FOR TOMORROW TO BE CLOUDY...SHOWERY AND BREEZY...MUCH LIKE
TODAY. HOWEVER...I ANTICIPATE SEVERE WEATHER WILL NOT BE NEARLY AS
MUCH OF AN ISSUE TOMORROW GIVEN LOWER EXPECTED RATES OF
SURFACE-BASED INSTABILITY. SHEAR WILL STILL REMAIN SOMEWHAT HIGH
THOUGH...SO AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT AND THIS RISK
WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE HWO. ONCE AGAIN...DOWNPOURS WILL BE
POTENTIALLY HEAVY GIVEN THE TROPICAL LEVELS OF MOISTURE...BUT ANY
FLOODING PROBLEMS ARE ANTICIPATED TO REMAIN VERY MINOR AND ISOLATED
SO NO FLOOD WATCHES HAVE BEEN PROPOSED FOR THIS PERIOD AS OF YET.
/BB/

WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW TREND OF GFS TO LIFT REMNANTS OF KATRINA
GRADUALLY TO THE NE BY SUNDAY NIGHT. MAINTAINED HIGHER POPS CENTRAL
AND ERN ZONES FOR SUNDAY NIGHT AS THE SYSTEM LIFTS NEAR THE MS
RIVER. HOWEVER INCREASED MOS POPS WRN ZONES SLIGHTLY DUE TO
UNCERTAINTY OF SPEED OF SYSTEM...KEEPING THIS AREA IN HIGH END
CHANCE CATEGORY. MODELS FALLING INTO CONSENSUS THAT UPPER TROUGH
WILL CONTINUE EWD SHIFT MONDAY WITH NWLY FLOW AT LOW LEVELS REDUCING
PRECIP CHANCES FROM THE WEST. WILL DECREASE MOS POPS SLIGHTLY FOR
WRN ZONES BY THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK WEEK.

LOW LEVEL COLD AIR ADVECTION DEVELOPS BY TUESDAY BUT BRUNT OF 850 MB
COLD AIR DOME REMAINS N OF THE FORECAST AREA. AS A RESULT...AND
CONSIDERING MODEL TENDENCY TO COOL FIRST NIGHT OF COLD AIR ADVECTION
TOO MUCH...WILL INCREASE MOS POPS A FEW DEGREES HIGHER FROM
CURRENTLY ADVERTISED UPPER 50S/NEAR 60 LOWS FOR NRN AND CENTRAL
AREAS WEDNESDAY MORNING.

REMNANTS OF SYSTEM LINGER JUST E/SE OF AREA AND PIVOT BACK INTO SERN
ZONES BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE FLAT LOW LEVEL TROUGH FINALLY
MOVES SOUTH OF OUR AREA THU AS A RELATIVELY DEEP UPPER LOW DROPS
INTO THE MID WEST...RESULTING IN SIGNIFICANT COLD AIR ADVECTION FOR
THE LOWER MS RIVER VALLEY. WILL FINALLY SEE TEMP REGIME SWITCH TO
MORE AUTUMN LIKE WEATHER BY THE END OF WEEK. WILL FOLLOW MOS TREND
WITH LOWS FROM THE 50S NORTH TO 60S SOUTH BY THE END OF THE WEEK
WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 80S. /LB/

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
JACKSON       75  84  72  85 /  90  90  80  40
MERIDIAN      73  84  69  85 /  90  80  90  60

&&

.JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MS...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM SATURDAY FOR MSZ018-MSZ019-MSZ025-
     MSZ026-MSZ027-MSZ028-MSZ029-MSZ030-MSZ031-MSZ032-MSZ033-
     MSZ034-MSZ035-MSZ036-MSZ037-MSZ038-MSZ039-MSZ040-MSZ041-
     MSZ042-MSZ043-MSZ044-MSZ045-MSZ046-MSZ047-MSZ048-MSZ049-
     MSZ050-MSZ051-MSZ052-MSZ053-MSZ054-MSZ055-MSZ056-MSZ057-
     MSZ058-MSZ059-MSZ060-MSZ061-MSZ062-MSZ063-MSZ064-MSZ065-
     MSZ066-MSZ072-MSZ073-MSZ074.

     FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 8 AM SUNDAY FOR MSZ053-MSZ059-MSZ060-
     MSZ061.

     WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM SATURDAY FOR MSZ040-MSZ041-MSZ042-
     MSZ043-MSZ047-MSZ048-MSZ049-MSZ053-MSZ054-MSZ055-MSZ056-
     MSZ059-MSZ060-MSZ061-MSZ062-MSZ063-MSZ064-MSZ065-MSZ066-
     MSZ072-MSZ073-MSZ074.

     LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM SATURDAY FOR MSZ018-MSZ019-MSZ025-
     MSZ026-MSZ027-MSZ028-MSZ034-MSZ035-MSZ036-MSZ037-MSZ044-
     MSZ050.

LA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 8 AM SUNDAY FOR LAZ007-LAZ008-LAZ009-
     LAZ015-LAZ016-LAZ023-LAZ024-LAZ025-LAZ026.

     TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM SATURDAY FOR LAZ007-LAZ008-LAZ009-
     LAZ015-LAZ016-LAZ023-LAZ024-LAZ025-LAZ026.

     WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM SATURDAY FOR LAZ007-LAZ008-LAZ009-
     LAZ015-LAZ016-LAZ023-LAZ024-LAZ025-LAZ026.

AR...LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM SATURDAY FOR ARZ074-ARZ075.

     TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM SATURDAY FOR ARZ074-ARZ075.

&&

50/03

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 24, 10:39 AM CDT, 7 hours 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1039 AM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074-
251539-
ADAMS-ASHLEY-ATTALA-BOLIVAR-CARROLL-CATAHOULA-CHICOT-CHOCTAW-
CLAIBORNE-CLARKE-CLAY-CONCORDIA-COPIAH-COVINGTON-EAST CARROLL-
FORREST-FRANKLIN LA-FRANKLIN MS-GRENADA-HINDS-HOLMES-HUMPHREYS-
ISSAQUENA-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-JONES-KEMPER-LAMAR-
LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEAKE-LEFLORE-LINCOLN-LOWNDES-MADISON LA-
MADISON MS-MARION-MONTGOMERY-MOREHOUSE-NESHOBA-NEWTON-NOXUBEE-
OKTIBBEHA-RANKIN-RICHLAND-SCOTT-SHARKEY-SIMPSON-SMITH-SUNFLOWER-
TENSAS-WARREN-WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WEST CARROLL-WINSTON-YAZOO-
1039 AM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

...THUNDERSTORMS...
SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORNADOES AND WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH WILL BE LIKELY TODAY ACROSS NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM
CANTON...TO RALEIGH...TO THE LAUREL/HATTIESBURG AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE MORE ISOLATED ACROSS SOUTHEAST
ARKANSAS...NORTHERN AND EASTERN MISSISSIPPI.I

HURRICANE RITA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHWARD ALONG THE SABINE
RIVER VALLEY TODAY. AS IT DOES...STRONG WIND SHEAR IN LOWER
LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE STORM WILL
SPREAD INTO EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI.
SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING STRONG ROTATION HAVE BEEN
DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING...AND IN
ADDITION A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING ACROSS
SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA INTO THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO. ALL OF
THIS ACTIVITY WILL MOVE NORTH INTO NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON.

DUE TO THE STRONG WIND SHEAR IN THE ATMOSPHERE...SOME OF THESE
STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE TORNADOES AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH.
TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANES OF THE SIZE AND INTENSITY OF
RITA CAN BE STRONG...AND CONDITIONS APPEAR FAVORABLE FOR AT LEAST
A FEW STRONG TORNADOES TODAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
LOUISIANA AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH SOMEWHAT AFTER 9
PM...BUT A RISK OF ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL CONTINUE OVER THE
REGION...ESPECIALLY WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 55 CORRIDOR.

...FLOODING...
ALTHOUGH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK
AREA...IT MORE LIKELY TO OCCUR OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. WITH PLENTY OF TROPICAL MOISTURE FLOWING
INTO THE REGION...PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED AS RAIN
BANDS FROM HURRICANE RITA REPEATEDLY MOVE INTO THE AREA. RAINFALL
TOTALS THROUGH SUNDAY MAY REACH 4 TO 8 INCHES WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS
POSSIBLE.

PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN IN SHORT PERIODS OF TIME ALONG WITH SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE SAME AREAS MAY LEAD TO RAPID
RUN OFF AND FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED
FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM BASTROP TO CLAYTON
LOUISIANA TO BUDE MISSISSIPPI.

HEAVY RAIN AND PONDING CAN BE EXPECTED FOR THE REST OF THE AREA.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE...CAUSING
WATER TO ACCUMULATE ON ROADWAYS AND IN OTHER LOW LYING AREAS.

...NON PRECIPITATION...
WINDS WILL INCREASE TODAY FOR MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHEAST
ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH
WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH CAN EXPECTED OVER A WIDE AREA WEST OF A
LAUREL TO WINONA LINE. AS HURRICANE RITA MOVES FARTHER
NORTH...STRONG WINDS WILL SPREAD NORTH AND EAST WITH SUSTAINED
WINDS OF NEAR 30 MPH...AND GUSTS UP TO AROUND 50 MPH OVER EAST
CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...ALONG AND SOUTHWEST
OF A BROOKHAVEN TO VICKSBURG TO BASTROP LINE.

WINDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN QUITE GUSTY OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING.
JACKSON HAS REPORTED A PEAK SUSTAINED WIND OF 26 MPH...WITH A
PEAK GUST OF 36 MPH...WHILE NATCHEZ-ADAMS CIVIL DEFENSE HAS
REPORTED A GUST TO 47 MPH. WINDS WILL PROBABLY INCREASE A BIT
MORE INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON...BEFORE DIMINISHING SOMEWHAT THIS
EVENING AS RITA WEAKENS.

A COMBINATION OF WET GROUND OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...AND DAMAGED TREES AND LIMBS FROM KATRINA
OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...WILL LIKELY LEAD TO
DOWNED TREES AND LIMBS FROM THESE WINDS.  SOME OF THESE LIMBS AND
TREES MAY COME DOWN ON POWERLINES...AND POWER OUTAGES HAVE
ALREADY BEEN REPORTED OVER PARTS OF THE AREA. BE ESPECIALLY ALERT
FOR DEAD LIMBS THAT COULD FALL IF YOU ARE VENTURING OUTDOORS
TODAY.

...FIRE DANGER...
AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER DUE TO NUMEROUS DOWNED TREES AND LIMBS
CONTINUES TO EXIST ACCORDING TO THE MISSISSIPPI FORESTRY
COMMISSION...PARTICULARLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI WHERE
NUMEROUS BURN BANS ARE IN EFFECT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

...DAYS TWO AND THREE...SUNDAY AND MONDAY...
THE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY...AS SPIRAL
BANDS FROM RITA MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. THE MAIN
RISK WILL CONTINUE TO BE FOR TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE
BANDS. THE MAGNITUDE OF THE RISK ON SUNDAY WILL BE DEPENDENT UPON
HOW RAPIDLY RITA WEAKENS. AT THE PRESENT TIME...THE GREATEST RISK
LOOKS TO BE ALONG THE INTERSTATE 55 CORRIDOR AS STEADY RAINS
PERSIST TO THE WEST.
ISOLATED STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EASTERN MISSISSIPPI
MAINLY DURING SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR INCREASES
DURING THE DAYTIME HEATING.

HEAVY RAINFALL WILL COVER MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA SUNDAY AND
PERSIST ALL THE WAY INTO MONDAY MORNING. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS
OF 6 TO 10 INCHES MAY BE COMMON OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI BY MONDAY MORNING.

...DAYS FOUR THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...
THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE RITA WILL CONTINUE TO HANG AROUND THE
REGION THROUGH THE FIRST PART OF THE WORK WEEK...PRODUCING
INTERMITTENT AND OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF THE
FORECAST AREA. ADDITIONAL RAIN AMOUNTS DURING THIS TIME OF A FEW
INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN ISOLATED SPOTS...WHICH COULD EXACERBATE
ANY MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS WHICH MAY OCCUR OVER THE WEEKEND.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTER GROUPS...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS
AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER
OPERATIONS...WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THROUGH THE
WEEKEND...ESPECIALLY FOR THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA. OTHERWISE...ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED NEXT
MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 24, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
508 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0440 PM     TORNADO          5 NE INVERNESS          33.41N 90.53W
09/24/2005                   SUNFLOWER          MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED A TORNADO 5 NE OF INVERNESS ON
            HWY 3 CAUSING AGRICULTURAL DAMAGE

&&

DB

Local storm report, Sep 24, 5:32 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
532 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0530 PM     TORNADO          2 NNE CLEVELAND         33.77N 90.71W
09/24/2005                   BOLIVAR            MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TORNADO ON THE GROUND NORTH NORTHEAST OF CLEVELAND.

&&

DB

Local storm report, Sep 24, 5:37 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
537 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0525 PM     TORNADO          1 S MERIGOLD            33.82N 90.73W
09/24/2005                   BOLIVAR            MS   AIRPLANE PILOT

            STUCTURAL DAMAGE TO A BUSINESS OFF OF HWY 61. TREES AND
            POWERLINES DOWN OFF OF LITTON RD. MOBILE HOME DAMAGE OFF
            OF SANDPIT RD.

&&

DB

Local storm report, Sep 24, 5:44 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
544 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0434 PM     FLASH FLOOD      DOWNTOWN JACKSON        32.30N 90.19W
09/24/2005                   HINDS              MS   AMATEUR RADIO

            STREET FLOODING AT THE INTERSECTION OF BEASLEY AND
            BRIARWOOD...AND SOUTHBOUND LANE OF I-55.

&&

DB

Local storm report, Sep 24, 6:00 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
600 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0150 PM     TSTM WND DMG     8 SW BROOKHAVEN         31.50N 90.54W
09/24/2005                   LINCOLN            MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            FEW POWERLINES DOWN NEAR WEST LINCOLN.

&&

DB

Local storm report, Sep 24, 6:03 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
603 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0555 PM     TORNADO          5 SW MORGAN CITY        33.33N 90.41W
09/24/2005                   LEFLORE            MS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TORNADO REPORTED ON THE GOUND IN EXTREME SOUTHERN LEFLORE
            COUNTY.

&&

DB

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Jackson, MS (KJAN), 12:00Z

11.4 hours before the tornado, 101 km from the path. September 24, 2005.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 580 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 470 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.3
0-3 km lapse rate: 5.2 K/km

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Jackson, MS (KJAN), 00:00Z

0.6 hours after it, 101 km from the path. September 25, 2005.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

Mixed-layer CAPE: 947 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 663 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.3
0-3 km lapse rate: 5.6 K/km

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The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:23 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Report	Where	County	Remark
20:35 UTC	TORNADO 0	Silver City	Humphreys, MS	MOVED TO 5 SW BELZONI. DAMAGE WAS LIMITED TO SOME DOWNED LIMBS AND MINOR DAMAGE TO THE ROOF OF A HOME...4 MILE LENGTH AND 50 YD MAX WIDTH
20:40 UTC	TORNADO	1 W Belzoni	Humphreys, MS	SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR HWY 49 JUST WEST OF BELZONI
21:03 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Yazoo City	Yazoo, MS	A COUPLE OF TREES DOWN IN YAZOO CITY.
21:13 UTC	TORNADO	Belzoni	Humphreys, MS	* 1 FATAL * EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO 2 SUBDIVISIONS IN BELZONI WITH NUMEROUS INJURIES ALSO.
21:18 UTC	TORNADO 1	3 Nnw Belzoni	Humphreys, MS	DAMAGE CONSISTED OF DOWNED TREES...BLOWN OVER IRRIGATION EQUIPMENT...AND ROOF DAMAGE TO A HOME AND CHURCH. 1.5 MILE PATH LENGTH AND 75 YARD MAX WIDTH.
21:20 UTC	TORNADO	Belzoni	Humphreys, MS	MAJOR DAMAGE REPORTED AT THE JOCKEY MANUFACTURING PLANT IN BELZONI.
21:25 UTC	TORNADO 1	4 E Isola	Humphreys, MS	* 1 FATAL, 2 INJ * STRUCK AND FLIPPED A MOBILE HOME...CAUSING IT TO BE TOTALLY DESTROYED...A NUMBER OF TREES DOWNED...3 MI LENGTH AND 100 YD MAX WIDTH
21:34 UTC	TORNADO 2	4 Sse Belzoni	Humphreys, MS	* 3 INJ * HEAVIEST DAMAGE ON E AND NE SIDES OF BELZONI...SEVERAL HOUSES SERIOUSLY DAMAGED...MODULAR COMMERCIAL BUILDING TOTALLY DESTROYED...STEEL FRAMED CHURCH BLDG HEAVILY DAMAGED...RURAL DAMAGE TO TREES...POWERLINE
21:40 UTC	TORNADO	5 Ne Inverness	Sunflower, MS	EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED A TORNADO 5 NE OF INVERNESS ON HWY 3 CAUSING AGRICULTURAL DAMAGE
22:25 UTC	TORNADO 2	3 Nw Cruger	Holmes, MS	TORNADO BEGAN JUST INSIDE THE HOLMES COUNTY LINE...AND THEN MOVED NORTHWEST THROUGH THE PHILLIPSTOWN AND QUITO COMMUNITIES...BEFORE DISSIPATING 1.5 MI SW OF ITTA BENA. EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED ALONG THE PATH...WITH
22:34 UTC	TORNADO	2 Nnw Vaughn	Yazoo, MS	EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTS TREES DOWN ON DEASONVILLE AND VAUGHN ROADS. RADAR INDICATED LIKELY TORNADO IN THIS AREA.
22:54 UTC	TORNADO	9 Se Itta Bena	Leflore, MS	TORNADO SPOTTED ON THE GROUND. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWNED. SEVERAL HOMES AND GINS DAMAGED. THE TORNADO MOVED OUT OF NW HOLMES, NEAR CRUGER, ACROSS MOSQUITO LAKE TO THE PHILLIPSTOWN COMMUNITY TO QUITO TO ITTA BE
22:55 UTC	TORNADO 1	1 Se Itta Bena	Leflore, MS	TORNADO MOVED THROUGH THE EAST SIDE OF ITTA BENA. NUMEROUS LARGE LIMBS AND TREES WERE DOWNED ON A PATH THROUGH THE TOWN...THE ROOF OF THE HIGH SCHOOL HAD MINOR DAMAGE AND ONE HOME HAD SOME ROOF DAMAGE.
22:55 UTC	TORNADO	5 Sw Morgan City	Leflore, MS	TORNADO REPORTED ON THE GOUND IN EXTREME SOUTHERN LEFLORE COUNTY.
23:15 UTC	TORNADO	5 Wsw Greenwood	Leflore, MS	TORNADO ON THE GROUND. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWNED.
23:25 UTC	TORNADO 0	12 N Lexington	Holmes, MS	SHORT PATH OF WEAK TORNADO DAMAGE WITH A NUMBER OF LARGE LIMBS AND POWERLINES DOWNED ABOUT 3 MI SE OF THE ACONA COMMUNITY.
23:45 UTC	TORNADO 0	6 S Greenwood	Leflore, MS	BRIEF TOUCHDOWN OBSERVED BY FIRE AND EM SPOTTERS NEAR THE RISING SUN COMMUNITY. NO SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OCCURRED.

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The other tornadoes of September 24, 2005

51 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 24	9:15 AM CDT	F0	Franklin, MS	0.5	100
September 24	11:14 AM CDT	F0	Hinds, MS	2.0	75
September 24	11:20 AM CDT	F0	Hinds, MS	0.5	50
September 24	11:21 AM CDT	F1	Warren, MS	1.8	75
September 24	12:40 PM CDT	F1	Ashley, AR	7.0	100			$100,000
September 24	12:51 PM CDT	F1	Chicot, AR	1.0	100			$300,000
September 24	12:54 PM CDT	F1	Drew, AR	4.8	40
September 24	1:30 PM CDT	F0	Hinds, MS	0.7	50
September 24	2:10 PM CDT	F2	Washington, MS	2.0	300			$680,000
September 24	2:45 PM CDT	F0	Desha, AR	11.0	40
September 24	3:12 PM CDT	F0	Washington, MS	0.5	100
September 24	3:13 PM CDT	F0	Bolivar, MS	3.5	100
September 24	3:19 PM CDT	F0	Arkansas, AR	7.0	40
September 24	3:30 PM CDT	F0	Jefferson, AR	1.5	40
September 24	3:35 PM CDT	F0	Humphreys, MS	4.0	50			$10,000
September 24	4:18 PM CDT	F1	Humphreys, MS	1.5	75			$150,000
September 24	4:25 PM CDT	F1	Humphreys, MS	3.5	100	1	2	$50,000
September 24	4:34 PM CDT	F2	Humphreys, MS	18.0	800		3	$2.5 million
September 24	4:35 PM CDT	F0	Bolivar, MS	1.0	50			$30,000
September 24	4:40 PM CDT	F2	Lonoke, AR	7.2	100		5
September 24	4:40 PM CDT	F0	Sunflower, MS	1.0	50
September 24	5:02 PM CDT	F1	Sunflower, MS	1.0	100			$20,000
September 24	5:03 PM CDT	F1	Bolivar, MS	9.0	200			$400,000
September 24	5:14 PM CDT	F0	East Carroll Parish, LA	1.0	50
September 24	5:20 PM CDT	F1	Leflore, MS	1.0	100
September 24	5:35 PM CDT	F0	Sunflower, MS	1.0	100			$10,000
September 24	5:37 PM CDT	F2	Bolivar, MS	12.0	200			$800,000
September 24	5:54 PM CDT	F1	Chicot, AR	1.0	75			$60,000
September 24	5:56 PM CDT	F0	Leflore, MS	2.0	50
September 24	5:59 PM CDT	F1	Lonoke, AR	1.5	100
September 24	6:00 PM CDT	F2	Leflore, MS	9.0	250
September 24	6:01 PM CDT	F1	Pulaski, AR	4.2	100
September 24	6:09 PM CDT	F1	Pulaski, AR	6.0	80
September 24	6:17 PM CDT	F1	Leflore, MS	1.0	75			$200,000
September 24	6:18 PM CDT	F1	Faulkner, AR	2.0	80
September 24	6:29 PM CDT	F1	Chicot, AR	2.0	75			$150,000
September 24	6:40 PM CDT	F0	Carroll, MS	3.0	75
September 24	6:48 PM CDT	F2	Conway, AR	1.0	100
September 24	6:55 PM CDT	F0	Franklin, MS	2.0	75
September 24	7:33 PM CDT	F2	White, AR	9.0	150
September 24	7:45 PM CDT	F2	Newton, MS	0.8	100			$1.0 million
September 24	7:55 PM CDT	F0	Cleburne, AR	0.6	40
September 24	7:56 PM CDT	F0	Concordia Parish, LA	2.0	75			$70,000
September 24	8:05 PM CDT	F1	Cleburne, AR	0.7	50
September 24	8:37 PM CDT	F0	Sharkey, MS	1.0	100
September 24	8:40 PM CDT	F1	Sharkey, MS	3.0	100			$400,000
September 24	9:21 PM CDT	F1	Arkansas, AR	7.0	40
September 24	10:06 PM CDT	F1	Catahoula Parish, LA	9.0	50			$200,000
September 24	12:40 AM CDT	F0	Bolivar, MS	1.0	50			$10,000
September 24	12:42 AM CDT	F0	Concordia Parish, LA	1.0	75
September 24	12:44 AM CDT	F3	Concordia Parish, LA	14.0	100		3	$1.1 million

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.