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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 7:16 PM CST for Clarke County, Jasper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2000, 7:16 PM CST (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clarke County, MS, Jasper County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 040120 SVRJAN MSC023-061-040200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 716 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI JASPER COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 800 PM CST * AT 716 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HEIDELBERG...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUITMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR VOSSBERG....AT 725 PM CST NEAR QUITMAN...STONEWALL AT 735 PM CST THIS STORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND RURAL AREAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADxS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 80
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Jan 3, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 47 min |
| Jan 3, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 44 min |
| Jan 3, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence, Simpson | 43 min |
| Jan 3, 7:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Winston | 38 min |
| Jan 3, 7:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 51 min |
| Jan 3, 7:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 25 min |
| Jan 3, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 46 min |
| Jan 3, 8:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington | 27 min |
| Jan 3, 8:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 10:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 27 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.