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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 18, 2000, 3:45 PM CST for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 18, 2000, 3:45 PM CST (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bolivar County, MS
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 4:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Pace, MS | A radio tower was blown down onto a house. A middle school received minor damage. Trees and power lines were blown down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 519 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 495 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KJAN 182146 SVRJAN MSC011-182230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 345 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 430 PM CST * AT 345 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROSEDALE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR GUNNISON AT 355 PM CST NEAR MOUND BAYOU...SHELBY AT 410 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL ARE LIKELY. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 65
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 45 min |
| Feb 18, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 32 min |
| Feb 18, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 25 min |
| Feb 18, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 52 min |
| Feb 18, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada | 37 min |
| Feb 18, 5:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower, Washington | 41 min |
| Feb 18, 5:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada | 34 min |
| Feb 18, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 45 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.