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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Jackson, MS

April 1, 2000Lawrence County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2000, 2:03 PM CST for Lawrence County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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: Apr 1, 2000, 2:03 PM CST (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2000, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Lawrence County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

801 
WUUS54 KJAN 012003
SVRJAN
MSC077-012030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
203 PM CST SAT APR 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 230 PM CST

* AT 203 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF MONTICELLO...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  EAST OF BROOKHAVEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR MONTICELLO AT 210 PM CST

DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL ARE LIKELY. SEEK SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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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 Apr 1, 11:35 AM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 11:35 AM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1135 AM CST SAT APR 1 2000

IMPRESSIVE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING BETWEEN KSHV AND KESF
DURING THE PAST HOUR. ALSO...LIGHT RAIN REPORTED AT KMCB WITH A LONE
LIGHTNING STRIKE JUST TO THE SOUTH. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO ADD THUNDER
TO WESTERN ZONES AND PERHAPS BEEF UP POPS A TAD...AND TO ADD SLIGHT
CHANCE POPS AND THUNDER TO SOUTHEAST ZONES DOWNSTREAM FROM KMCB. NO
OTHER CHANGES AT THIS TIME AS TEMPS AND WINDS SEEM TO BE IN LINE.

.JAN...
MS...NONE.
AR...NONE.
LA...NONE.
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 1, 10:00 AM CST, 4 hours 3 minutes before

ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074-
020300-

AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1000 AM CST SAT APR 1 2000

A STALLING COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS AND NORTHWEST
MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT. AT THE SAME TIME SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE OUT OF TEXAS ACROSS THE DELTA REGIONS
OF ARKANSAS...LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI. STRONG WINDS ALOFT
WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WITH CURRENT AND ANTICIPATED CONDITIONS...THE
STORMS SHOULD NOT REACH SEVERE LIMITS. HOWEVER...DELTA COUNTIES AND
PARISHES COULD EXPERIENCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT.

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

FOR MORE INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR INTERNET WEB SITE AT
HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Simpson	32 min
Apr 1, 3:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	52 min
Apr 1, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Jones	66 min
Apr 1, 4:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	48 min
Apr 1, 5:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	25 min
Apr 1, 5:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	41 min
Apr 1, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	43 min
Apr 1, 5:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	38 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.