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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 596, NWS Jackson, MS

August 26, 2000Webster County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2000, 5:41 PM CDT for Webster County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Aug 26, 2000, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Webster County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 338 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -40 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
338 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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 262242
SVRJAN
MSC155-262330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
541 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 541 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF WALTHALL...MOVEMENT WAS NEARLY
STATIONARY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  REMAIN NEAR WALTHALL.

DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

86

LAT...LON 3356 8899 3364 8903 3374 8903 3374w 8911
          3362 8923 3354 8914

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLincoln43 min
Aug 25, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANFranklin38 min
Aug 26, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMontgomery50 min
Aug 26, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANForrest, Jones26 min
Aug 26, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANForrest, Lamar35 min
Aug 26, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison30 min
Aug 26, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin35 min
Aug 26, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANScott29 min
Aug 26, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLamar29 min
Aug 26, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin32 min
Aug 26, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWebster26 min
Aug 26, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANJefferson Davis34 min
Aug 26, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANScott, Smith24 min
Aug 26, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLincoln39 min
Aug 26, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMarion23 min
Aug 26, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds, Rankin34 min
Aug 26, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSimpson, Smith30 min
Aug 26, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLawrence37 min
Aug 26, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds, Rankin31 min
Aug 26, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison26 min
Aug 26, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNeshoba35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.