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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Jackson, MS

February 13, 2000Warren County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 3:55 PM CST for Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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: Feb 13, 2000, 3:55 PM CST (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2000, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Warren 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
Feb 13, 1:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 990 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 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.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 132158
SVRJAN
MSC149-132245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
355 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 445 PM CST

* AT 354 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF VICKSBURG...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF TALLULAH...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR VICKSBURG AT 405 PM CST

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY
FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRE2NTIAL 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
Feb 13, 2:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	25 min
Feb 13, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	35 min
Feb 13, 3:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sharkey	30 min
Feb 13, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Yazoo	36 min
Feb 13, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	43 min
Feb 13, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	32 min
Feb 13, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	45 min
Feb 13, 5:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	35 min
Feb 13, 5:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	37 min
Feb 13, 5:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	35 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.