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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 511, NWS Jackson, MS

August 3, 2000Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2000, 4:08 PM CDT for Rankin 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 2000, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Rankin County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 14 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2000-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 848 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 2000-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
848 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
977 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 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 032109
SVRJAN
MSC121-032145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
408 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 408 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PUCKETT. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.2

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER THE PUCKET AREA...

HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne, Copiah36 min
Aug 3, 2:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLeake29 min
Aug 3, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne35 min
Aug 3, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCovington31 min
Aug 3, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANScott35 min
Aug 3, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWarren45 min
Aug 3, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin42 min
Aug 3, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSimpson34 min
Aug 3, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds23 min
Aug 3, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSimpson28 min
Aug 3, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHolmes, Yazoo29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.