Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 12:51 PM CST for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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, 12:51 PM CST (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sunflower 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, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 513 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 031854 TORJAN MSC133-031915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1251 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUNFLOWER COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 115 PM CST * AT 1251 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INVERNESS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOLLANDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR INVERNESS AT 105 PM CST NEAR MOORHEAD AT 120 PM CST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 82
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, 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, 5:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 41 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.