Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 539, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 6:19 PM CDT for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2000, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Marion County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Columbia, MS | Hail fell for up to 15 minutes in the small community of Lampton. Several buildings received minor roof damage. |
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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 989 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
269 WUUS54 KJAN 102319 SVRJAN MSC091-110000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 619 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 619 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBIA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL... REMAIN OVER RURAL MARION COUNTY DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW AND REMAIN PROTECTED UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 65 LAT...LON 3116 8965 3129 8980 3111 9007 3094 8987
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 27 min |
| Aug 10, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 49 min |
| Aug 10, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 34 min |
| Aug 10, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Lamar | 36 min |
| Aug 10, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 33 min |
| Aug 10, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.