Tornadoes · United States · Mississippi · 2005

F0 tornado, Anguilla to Nitta Yuma, Mississippi, September 24, 2005

Name: F0 tornado, Anguilla to Nitta Yuma, Mississippi, September 24, 2005
Start: 2005-09-25T01:37:00.000Z
Location: Anguilla to Nitta Yuma, Mississippi

From Anguilla to Nitta Yuma, this F0 tornado ran 1.0 miles across Sharkey County on September 24, 2005, touching down at 8:37 PM CDT and reaching 100 yards wide. It killed nobody.

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: 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
Path length: 1.0 miles (1.6 km)
Path width: 100 yards (91 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Sharkey County
Touchdown point: 32.970, -90.850
Lift-off point: 32.980, -90.850
Record number: 462

What the Weather Service recorded

This weak tornado briefly touched down on the western side of Anguilla uprooting and snapping several trees. The damage was near Deer Creek and just to the northwest.

This tornado touched down on the west side of Nitta Yuma and caused damage to homes and downed a few trees. Nearly 20 homes had shingles blown off the roof, one tree was down on a house and 3 power poles were blown down. The tornado continued to the north-northwest for 3 miles were it torn tops off trees in the Panther Burn Community.

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

The warnings

6 minutes of warning. NWS JAN issued a tornado warning for this county at 01:31 UTC, 6 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 02:15 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
12:00 UTC	16:16 UTC	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN
17:06 UTC	17:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
18:10 UTC	19:00 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
18:35 UTC	19:00 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
19:02 UTC	19:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
19:35 UTC	20:00 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
00:18 UTC	01:00 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
00:56 UTC	01:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
00:58 UTC	01:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
01:31 UTC	02:15 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
01:33 UTC	02:15 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
02:13 UTC	02:21 UTC	Tornado Warning	JAN
07:10 UTC	07:45 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 00:59 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, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 24, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
640 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. /03/

&&

.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.

     LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 AM SUNDAY FOR MSZ026-MSZ027-MSZ028-
     MSZ029-MSZ032-MSZ036-MSZ037-MSZ042-MSZ043-MSZ044-MSZ048-
     MSZ049-MSZ050-MSZ053-MSZ054-MSZ055-MSZ059-MSZ060-MSZ061-
     MSZ062-MSZ063.

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

     WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 AM SUNDAY FOR MSZ018-MSZ019-MSZ025-MSZ034-
     MSZ035-MSZ040-MSZ041-MSZ047.

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 7 AM SUNDAY FOR LAZ007-LAZ008-LAZ009-LAZ015-
     LAZ016-LAZ023-LAZ024-LAZ025-LAZ026.

AR...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM SATURDAY FOR ARZ074-ARZ075.

     WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 AM SUNDAY FOR ARZ074-ARZ075.

&&

50/03

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 24, 6:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
659 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074-
252359-
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-
659 PM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND SUNDAY...

...THUNDERSTORMS...
SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE EARLY THIS EVENING
ACROSS A GOOD PORTION OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST
LOUISIANA AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
SHOULD BECOME VERY ISOLATED BY MIDNIGHT...HOWEVER...THERE WILL
STILL BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER AGAIN DURING THE DAY
SUNDAY ACROSS THE REGION.

LEVELS OF WIND SHEAR...INSTABILITY AND LIFT WILL BE SUFFICIENT
ENOUGH THROUGH MID EVENING TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION. EXPECT TORNADOES AND DAMAGING
WINDS TO BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WHILE THE
RISK FOR TORNADOES WILL EXIST IN ALL AREAS THIS EVENING...IT
SHOULD BE HIGHEST NORTH OF INTERSTATE TWENTY WHERE WIND SHEAR
WILL BE MORE FAVORABLE. EXPECT LESSENING SURFACE-BASED
INSTABILITY TO LEAD TO WEAKENING OF STORMS BY MIDNIGHT...ALTHOUGH
ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT
HOURS.

TOMORROW...THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE RITA WILL REMAIN NEARBY THE
LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THIS INFLUENCE WILL CONTINUE TO FUEL
SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THE DAY...AS WELL AS
PROVIDING RATHER HIGH LEVELS OF WIND SHEAR. DUE TO THIS
SHEAR...THERE WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE
WEATHER...INCLUDING TORNADOES AND DAMAGING WINDS.
HOWEVER...INSTABILITY LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN RATHER LOW IN
MOST LOCATIONS...KEEPING THE OVERALL COVERAGE OF SEVERE STORMS
ISOLATED.

...FLOODING...
ALTHOUGH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK
AREA...IT IS MORE LIKELY TO OCCUR OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...WHERE SOME LOCATIONS HAVE ALREADY
RECEIVED 3 TO 4 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION. 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 TONIGHT. RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MAY REACH
UP TO 8 INCHES IN ISOLATED SPOTS.

PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN IN SHORT AMOUNTS 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 THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING.

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 REMAIN QUITE STRONG OVER PORTIONS OF THE LOWER
MISSISSIPPI THROUGH TONIGHT AND INTO TOMORROW AS THE REMNANTS OF
HURRICANE RITA SPIN DOWN IN THE VICINITY.

A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME
SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND NORTHWEST
MISSISSIPPI ALONG AND WEST OF A GREENWOOD...TO VICKSBURG...TO
ACME LOUISIANA LINE. WINDS IN THESE AREAS ARE EXPECTED TO BE
SUSTAINED AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH AT TIMES.
ELSEWHERE...A LAKE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN HOISTED TO COVER MUCH
OF THE INTERSTATE 55 CORRIDOR THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH SUSTAINED
WIND FROM 15 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH EXPECTED. NO
WIND-RELATED ADVISORIES ARE IN PLACE FOR THE EASTERN THIRD OF
MISSISSIPPI...ALTHOUGH WINDS HERE COULD STILL GUST TO 25 MPH THIS
EVENING.

WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO GUST AT 25 TO 35 MPH AT TIMES DURING THE
DAY SUNDAY AND LAKE WIND ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED IN MANY
LOCATIONS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...

...DAYS TWO AND THREE...SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...
THE REMNANTS OF RITA ARE NOW EXPECTED TO MOVE OUT OF THE REGION
TOMORROW NIGHT...BRINGING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND STORMY WEATHER
WITH IT...AT LEAST TEMPORARILY.

...DAYS FOUR THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.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 TONIGHT...AND WILL BE POSSIBLE
AGAIN SUNDAY. 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, 6:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 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

Local storm report, Sep 24, 6:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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

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

0615 PM     TORNADO          5 WSW GREENWOOD         33.49N 90.27W
09/24/2005                   LEFLORE            MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TORNADO ON THE GROUND. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES
            DOWNED.

&&

AEG

Local storm report, Sep 24, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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

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

0534 PM     TORNADO          2 NNW VAUGHN            32.83N 90.05W
09/24/2005                   YAZOO              MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTS TREES DOWN ON DEASONVILLE AND
            VAUGHN ROADS. RADAR INDICATED LIKELY TORNADO IN THIS
            AREA.

&&

AEG

Local storm report, Sep 24, 6:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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

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

1150 AM     TSTM WND DMG     2 NW LORMAN             31.84N 90.07W
09/24/2005                   SIMPSON            MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON THE NATCHEZ TRACE

&&

CAL

Local storm report, Sep 24, 7:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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

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

1120 AM     TSTM WND DMG     9 SE VICKSBURG          32.25N 90.74W
09/24/2005                   WARREN             MS   AMATEUR RADIO

            ONE TREE AND SEVERAL LIMBS BLOCKING ONE LANE OF THE BIG
            BLACK RIVER BRIDGE ON HWY 27

&&

CAL

Local storm report, Sep 24, 8:03 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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

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

0310 PM     TORNADO          8 SSW BENOIT            33.54N 91.06W
09/24/2005                   BOLIVAR            MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            A TORNADO WAS SPOTTED AND PHOTOGRAPHED NEAR THE LAMONT
            COMMUNITY. IT MOVED INTO EXTREME SW BOLIVAR COUNTY AT 310
            PM AND MOVED AT LEAST 4 MILES TO THE NW. THIS TORNADO
            MOVED THROUGH AN OPEN FIELD AND CAUSED NO KNOWN DAMAGE.

0503 PM     TORNADO          4 ENE SHAW              33.62N 90.71W
09/24/2005                   BOLIVAR            MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            A TORNADO PATH BEGAN ON SANDPIT RD AND MOVED NW TO NEAR
            BOYLE AND THEN TO SOMEWHERE W OF CLEVELAND. SEVERAL
            MOBILE HOMES WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED ALONG WITH NUMEROUS
            TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.

0534 PM     TORNADO          3 ESE CLEVELAND         33.73N 90.68W
09/24/2005                   BOLIVAR            MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            THIS TORNADO MOVE INTO BOLIVAR COUNTY JUST ESE OF
            CLEVELAND AND MOVED NW TO AT LEAST 4 N OF CLEVELAND.
            SEVERAL HOMES WERE DAMAGED ALONG WITH NUMEROUS TREES AND
            POWER LINES DOWN.

&&

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), 00:00Z

1.6 hours before the tornado, 102 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

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Jackson, MS (KJAN), 12:00Z

10.4 hours after it, 102 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: 770 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 772 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 456 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.0
0-3 km lapse rate: 5.7 K/km

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The surface observations

Greenville Municipal (GLH), 58 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Gust (kt)	Pressure (mb)	Weather
23:56 UTC	78	72	90° 21 kt	28	1003.4
00:56 UTC	78	72	110° 21 kt	27	1003.4	-RA
01:56 UTC	74	73	230° 23 kt	28	1004.1	+RA FG
02:56 UTC	77	73	130° 20 kt	30	1003.4	RA BR

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 01:39 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
22:55 UTC	TORNADO	5 Sw Morgan City	Leflore, MS	TORNADO REPORTED ON THE GOUND IN EXTREME SOUTHERN LEFLORE COUNTY.
01:35 UTC	TORNADO 0	Anguilla	Sharkey, MS	ABOUT 5 TREES HAD LARGE LIMBS DOWN AND SEVERAL OTHER TREES WERE BLOWN OVER AND LYING ALONG THE CREEK BED OFF CHURCH STREET NEAR DEER CREEK.
01:45 UTC	TORNADO 0	5 Nw Anguilla	Sharkey, MS	NEAR NITTA YUMA...ON BEALE AND RAY CHARLES STREETS...NEARLY 20 HOMES WITH SHINGLES DAMAGED OR MISSING. ABOUT 6 HOMES HAD SHINGLE DAMAGE ON THE FRONT AND BACK. 2 TREES WERE DOWN...1 ON A HOUSE. 3 POWER POLES WERE DOWN ON
02:00 UTC	TORNADO 0	7 Nw Anguilla	Sharkey, MS	2 TREES DOWN AND SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS DOWN IN THE PANTHER BURN COMMUNITY. THE TOP WAS RIPPED OFF 1 LARGE TREE AND SEVERAL OTHER LIMBS WERE DOWN.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

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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	6:25 PM CDT	F0	Holmes, MS	1.0	50			$10,000
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	8:40 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.