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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Jackson, MS

May 2, 2000Madison County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2000, 11:32 PM CDT for Madison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 2000, 11:32 PM CDT (04:32 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 2, 11:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Flora, MS	A number of large tree limbs were blown down and caused minor damage to several homes.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 35 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: 99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KJAN 030433
SVRJAN
MSC089-030500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1132 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1132 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF FLORA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF MADISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

  THIS STORM SHOULD PASS WEST OF CANTON BY 1150 PM.

HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	35 min
May 2, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	25 min
May 2, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	30 min
May 2, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Yazoo	45 min
May 3, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	45 min
May 3, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	28 min
May 3, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	42 min
May 3, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.