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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 404, NWS Jackson, MS

July 17, 2000Marion County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2000, 1:38 PM CDT for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 17, 2000, 1:38 PM CDT (18:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Marion County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -198 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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 
WUUS54 KJAN 171838
SVRJAN
MSC091-171915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
138 PM CDT MON JUL 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 PM CDT

* AT 138 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF COLUMBIA...MOVING EAST AT    
  10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
OVER RURAL MARION COUNTY AT 150 PM CDT

DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW AND REMAIN
PROTECTED UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

76

LAT...LON 3136 8982 3119 8974 3120 8967 3139 8967

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Neshoba, Newton	45 min
Jul 17, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	45 min
Jul 17, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	39 min
Jul 17, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	40 min
Jul 17, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	46 min
Jul 17, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	35 min
Jul 17, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	29 min
Jul 17, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	35 min
Jul 17, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Holmes	47 min
Jul 17, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	45 min
Jul 17, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	43 min
Jul 17, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	24 min
Jul 17, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	28 min
Jul 17, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	36 min
Jul 17, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	36 min
Jul 17, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	41 min
Jul 17, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	33 min
Jul 17, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren, Yazoo	37 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.