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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:19 PM CST for Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 5:19 PM CST (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Newton County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 427 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 032326 COR SVRJAN MSC101-040000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 519 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NEWTON COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 519 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR NEWTON AT 525 PM CST NEAR DECATUR AT 535 PM CST NEAR LITTLE ROCK AT 545 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT *DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 82
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 Jan 3, 3:00 PM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 3:00 PM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 300 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH IS CURRENTLY MAKING ITS WAY THROUGHOUT THE CWFA. LAGGING COLD FRONT STRETCHES FROM EAST CENTRAL AR THROUGH NW LA INTO EXTREME EASTERN TX. ALL MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH THE PROGRESSION OF THIS WEATHER SYSTEM. FRONT WILL BE ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BY 00Z TUES...THROUGH CENTRAL AREAS BY 06Z...AND BE EAST OF THE CWFA BY 12Z TUESDAY MORNING. RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO BUILD INTO THE REGION BY TUESDAY NIGHT. MODELS SHOWING BEST INSTABILITY...MOISTURE AND LIFT FOR THE FIRST 6 HOURS OF THE FORECAST PACKAGE AS THE PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH AND COLD FRONT MOVE EAST THROUGH THE CWFA. COOLER AND MUCH DRIER AIR IS BEHIND THE FRONT...WHICH WILL BEGIN TO SETTLE OVER THE REGION LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. FIRST PERIOD OF THE FORECAST WILL MAINLY BE CONCERNED WITH THE TIMING OF THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE AND POPS FORECAST. THE REMAINDER OF THE PACKAGE WILL BE A TEMP FORECAST. MOS AND FAN NUMBERS ARE FAIRLY CLOSE AND WILL TAKE COMPROMISE...AND LIKELY POPS LOOK OK FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWFA...MAINLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT. TEMPS ON AVERAGE ARE ABOUT 20 TO 30 DEGREES COOLER BEHIND THE FRONT. WITH NORTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH TOMORROW...WILL BE A MUCH COOLER DAY THAN WE HAVE HAD IN A WHILE. EXTENDED: HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THURSDAY...WITH ANOTHER COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE CWFA BY LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL AGAIN BEGIN TO NOSE INTO THE REGION BY LATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. QPF DISCUSSION: MAIN PRECIP THREAT WILL BE FOR THE FIRST 6 HOURS OF THE FORECAST PD. AGREE WITH NCEP GUIDANCE WITH AREAL AVERAGES...MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE...AROUND A QUARTER OF AN INCH. PRELIM NUMBERS: JAN 44/47/23/50 6000 MEI 47/49/23/50 7000 .JAN... MS...NONE. AR...NONE. LA...NONE. 32
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 3, 2:20 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
220 PM CST MON JAN 03 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 PM ITTA BENA MS WIND DAMAGE
01/03/00 LEFLORE CD REPORTED ROOF BLOWN OFF
APT COMPLEX ALSO TRAILER
DESTROYED NEAR BLEDSOLE
FARMS.
0130 PM NEWELLTON LA WIND DAMAGE
01/03/00 TENSAS CD REPORTS SHED BLOWN AWAY
AND TRAILER DAMAGED.
013 0 PM INVERNESS MS WIND DAMAGE
01/03/00 SUNFLOWER CD REPORTS ONE TREE DOWN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 11:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 50 min |
| Jan 3, 11:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 12:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 28 min |
| Jan 3, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 12:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 24 min |
| Jan 3, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 49 min |
| Jan 3, 1:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Warren | 28 min |
| Jan 3, 1:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 36 min |
| Jan 3, 2:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 43 min |
| Jan 3, 2:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 43 min |
| Jan 3, 2:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 25 min |
| Jan 3, 2:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll | 36 min |
| Jan 3, 3:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 27 min |
| Jan 3, 3:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 3:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 29 min |
| Jan 3, 3:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 37 min |
| Jan 3, 4:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 47 min |
| Jan 3, 4:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 39 min |
| Jan 3, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 5:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 28 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.