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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Jackson, MS

April 2, 2000East Carroll Parish, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2000, 6:13 AM CDT for East Carroll Parish, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 32 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 2, 2000, 6:13 AM CDT (11:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2000, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties East Carroll Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 2, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 537 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 851 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 2, 4:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 4:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
350 AM CST SUN APR 2 2000

HAVE DECIDED TO EXPAND TO THE FFA FOR ALL BUT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF
THE COUNTY WARNING AREA THROUGH TONIGHT.

.JAN...
MS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL BUT THE EXTREME
SOUTHEAST ZONES OF MS063>066..072>074.
AR...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST ZONES
ARZ074-075
LA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST ZONES
LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 12:09 AM CST, 5 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
109 AM CDT SUN APR 02 2000

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

1230 AM    LORMAN                    MS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/00   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY PD

0100 AM    BRANDON                   MS   .88 INCH HAIL
04/03/00   RANKIN                         REPORTED BY FD

Local storm report, Apr 2, 1:15 AM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
111 AM CST SAT APR 01 2000

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

0324 PM    MAGEE                     MS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/01/00   SIMPSON                        S.O. REPORTED DIME SIZED
                                          HAIL.

0328 PM    MAGEE                     MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/01/00   SIMPSON                        PUBLIC REPORTED GOLFBALL
                                          SIZED HAIL.

0410 PM    STRINGER                  MS   1 INCH HAIL
04/01/00   JASPER                         C.D. REPORTED QUARTER
                                          SIZED HAIL.

0900 PM    HOLLY RIDGE               LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/01/00   RICHLAND                       PUBLIC REPORTED GOLFBALL
                                          SIZED HAIL IN THE NORTHERN
                                          PART OF THE COUNTY.

1035 PM    GRENADA                   MS   FLOODING
04/01/00   GRENADA                        GRENADA EOC REPORTED
                                          FLOODING OCCURRING WITH A
                                          FEW HOMES BEING
                                          THREATENED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, West Carroll	25 min
Apr 2, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	31 min
Apr 2, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	39 min
Apr 2, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	23 min
Apr 2, 6:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Concordia, Tensas	2 hr

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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.