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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 492, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2000, 2:09 PM CDT for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 31, 2000, 2:09 PM CDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Forrest County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2:14 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Mc Laurin, MS | Minor roof damage occurred from the hail. |
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 2664 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 31, 7:05 AM CDT, 7 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 7:05 AM CDT, 7 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 705 AM CDT MON JUL 31 2000 UPDATED FORECAST TO REMOVE AFTERNOON TIMING FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. CURRENT RADAR DATA SHOWING ISOLATED TSTM DEVELOPMENT N AND CENTRAL. .JAN... AR...NONE LA...NONE MS...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 010300- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CDT MON JUL 31 2000 A STATIONARY FRONT...OVER EASTERN ARKANSAS...WILL COMBINE WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THIS EVENING. AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 SHOULD SEE THE MAJORITY OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...HOWEVER...SOME OF THE ISOLATED STRONG STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR INTERNET WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN (ALL IN LOWER CASE LETTERS). THIS INCLUDES AN EXPERIMENTAL GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 37 min |
| Jul 31, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 33 min |
| Jul 31, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes | 33 min |
| Jul 31, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 39 min |
| Jul 30, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 37 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.