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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 608, NWS Jackson, MS

August 27, 2000Lincoln County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2000, 5:05 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 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 27, 2000, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 2000-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2340 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 2000-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
2340 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1247 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

857 
WUUS54 KJAN 272205
SVRJAN
MSC085-272230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
505 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF BROOKHAVEN...MOVING SOUTHWEST
  AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  BE NEAR BROOKHAVEN AT 525 PM CDT
  BE NEAR BOGUE CHITTO AT 530 PM CDT

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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LAT...LON 3153 9024 3170 9032 3161 9062 3140 9052

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah24 min
Aug 26, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah37 min
Aug 27, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLamar, Marion23 min
Aug 27, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLamar32 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.