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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 492, NWS Jackson, MS

July 31, 2000Forrest County, Mississippi

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 31, 2:14 PM CDTHail 1Mc Laurin, MSMinor 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2664 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 1:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJefferson Davis, Lawrence37 min
Jul 31, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANForrest, Jones33 min
Jul 31, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds30 min
Jul 31, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClay, Lowndes33 min
Jul 31, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo39 min
Jul 30, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAshley37 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.