Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 6:25 PM CST for Neshoba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 6:25 PM CST (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Neshoba County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Philadelphia, MS | The roof of a mobile home was ripped off and destroyed. The roof of a shed was ripped away and blown into the windshield of a car. Numerous trees were blown down. |
| Feb 13, 6:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Philadelphia, MS | The roof of a shed was damaged. Several 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 552 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 140029 TORJAN MSC099-140100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 625 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NESHOBA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 625 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF PHILADELPHIA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL CR>OSS HIGHWAY 19 AND APPROACH DEWEESE BY 645 PM. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW! 74
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 23 min |
| Feb 13, 6:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 33 min |
| Feb 14, 9:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 63 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.