Arkansas-Mississippi-Alabama tornado outbreak

Infobox tornado outbreak|name=Arkansas-Mississippi-Alabama tornado outbreak
date=November 23-24, 2001
image location=Tornado Damage, Madison, MS.jpg

Madison, Mississippi on November 24, 2001 (courtesy of NWS Jackson, Mississippi)
duration=30 hours
fujitascale=F4
tornadoes=69
total damages (USD)=>unknown
total fatalities=13
areas affected=Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Georgia, IndianaThe Arkansas-Mississippi-Alabama tornado outbreak is a fall tornado outbreak which affected portions of the southern United States from Arkansas to Alabama on November 23-November 24, 2001 with additional tornadoes recorded in Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana and Georgia. Recorded as one of the most intense November outbreaks ever across that area, tornadoes from that event have killed at least 13 across three states including 4 in Alabama, four in Arkansas and five in Mississippi.

The event

A low pressure system was situated, just after 5 AM on November 24, near Kansas City, Missouri. Its associated cold front traversed much of the outbreak affected area with several supercells forming ahead of front. [ [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/events/24nov01/composite_weather_map.htm Composite Weather Map 11-24-01 ] ] Rich moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and cold air aloft and wind shear provided the ingredients from a significant severe weather outbreak.

Supercells formed late across much of Arkansas and Mississippi during the evening hours of November 23 up into the early morning hours of November 24 produced several tornadoes including two F4 Mississippi tornadoes across Washington and Bolivar Counties at around 2 AM [ [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/events/24nov01/bolivar/bolivar_img1.html Bolivar County MS - Washington County MS Tornado ] ] and in Madison County near the city of Madison at around 5 AM. The second tornado killed at least 2 (including a newborn baby) and injured 21. Another tornado in Mississippi, an F2, struck Quitman, Panola and Tate Counties just after 3 AM and killed at least three. [ [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/events/24nov01/madison/madison_img.html Madison County MS Tornado ] ] In Arkansas, four people were killed by two separate tornadoes including three in Ashley County from a single tornado that moved from Louisiana.

ee also

*List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
*Tornadoes of 2003

References

External links

* [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/significant_events/2001/11_24/index.php NWS Birmingham Tornado Outbreak page]
* [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/events/24nov01/ NWS Jackson, Mississippi Tornado Outbreak page]
* [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lzk/html/svr1101.htm November 2001 Arkansas Severe Weather]