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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 6:57 PM CST for Kemper County, Noxubee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 6:57 PM CST (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kemper County, MS, Noxubee County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 7:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Macon, MS | 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 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 140100 TORJAN MSC069-103-140130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 657 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KEMPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI NOXUBEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 657 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER DE KALB...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF MERIDIAN STATION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL AFFECT COOKSVILLE BY 725 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! LAT...LON 3287 887 2 3270 8864 3295 8785 3316 8795 74
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 35 min |
| Feb 13, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper | 23 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.