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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Jackson, MS

February 17, 2000Jasper County, Newton County, Smith County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 17, 2000, 5:46 PM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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 17, 2000, 5:46 PM CST (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Feb 17, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, MS, Newton County, MS, Smith County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 17, 5:55 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Raleigh, MS
Feb 17, 6:00 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Newton, 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 nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -354 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 172346
TORJAN
MSC061-101-129-180015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
546 PM CST THU FEB 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NEWTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  SMITH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 546 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF
  FOREST...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR NEWTON AT 615 PM CST

THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT# ANY
TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW! PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN
YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 17, 8:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	43 min
Feb 17, 8:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	45 min
Feb 17, 10:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	41 min
Feb 17, 5:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	36 min
Feb 17, 5:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Smith	29 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.