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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Jackson, MS

January 3, 2000Smith County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 8:14 PM CST for Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 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, 8:14 PM CST (02:14 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Smith 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, 7:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

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.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 040217
SVRJAN
MSC129-040300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
814 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SMITH COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 814 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RALEIGH...OR ABOUT 6
  MILES NORTHEAST OF MAGEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR RALEIGH AT 830 PM CST

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. 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 ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER 
COVERS THE ROAD.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 3, 8:08 PM CST, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 8:08 PM CST, 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
808 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

UPDATED ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR THE LATEST TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT
UNTIL 1 AM FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

.JAN...
MS...NONE.
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 3, 2:20 PM CST, 5 hours 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
220 PM CST MON JAN 03 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0115 PM    ITTA BENA                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
01/03/00   LEFLORE                        CD REPORTED ROOF BLOWN OFF
                                          APT COMPLEX ALSO TRAILER
                                          DESTROYED NEAR BLEDSOLE
                                          FARMS.

0130 PM    NEWELLTON                 LA   WIND DAMAGE
01/03/00   TENSAS                         CD REPORTS SHED BLOWN AWAY
                                          AND TRAILER DAMAGED.

0130 PM    INVERNESS                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
01/03/00   SUNFLOWER                      CD REPORTS ONE TREE DOWN.

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, 7:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	44 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, 8:33 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

Nearby

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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.