Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 6:41 PM CST for Lincoln County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2000, 6:41 PM CST (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 7:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookhaven, MS | Two sheds were destroyed. Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 040044 SVRJAN MSC085-040130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 641 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 641 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROOKHAVEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE NEAR BROOKHAVEN BY 645 PM. 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 DOR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 80
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 47 min |
| Jan 3, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 44 min |
| Jan 3, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence, Simpson | 43 min |
| Jan 3, 7:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Winston | 38 min |
| Jan 3, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 44 min |
| Jan 3, 7:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 51 min |
| Jan 3, 7:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 25 min |
| Jan 3, 8:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 46 min |
| Jan 3, 8:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington | 27 min |
| Jan 3, 8:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 10:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.