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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jackson, MS

January 3, 2000Leflore County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 1:11 PM CST for Leflore 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, 1:11 PM CST (19:11 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Leflore County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 3, 1:45 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood, MS	A few trees 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 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 031915
TORJAN
MSC083-032000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
111 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LEFLORE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 200 PM CST

* AT 112 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ITTA BENA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF MOORHEAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR ITTA BENA AT 130 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.

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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, 1:17 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.