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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 367, NWS Jackson, MS

June 17, 2000Yazoo County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2000, 3:03 PM CDT for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2000, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Yazoo County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 55 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: 991 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 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.

430 
WUUS54 KJAN 172006
SVRJAN
MSC163-172045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
303 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 303 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON...MOVING  
  NORTH AT 15 MPH INTO SOUTHEASTERN YAZOO COUNTY.

DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3267 9033 3274 9013 3290 9015 3300 9034

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	30 min
Jun 17, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Rankin	31 min
Jun 17, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	49 min
Jun 17, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Simpson	41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.