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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Jackson, MS

February 17, 2000Jasper County, Newton County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 17, 2000, 6:15 PM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 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: Feb 17, 2000, 6:15 PM CST (00:15 UTC)
Expired: Feb 17, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, MS, Newton County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 741 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 6.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 180017
TORJAN
MSC061-101-180100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 615 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR NEWTON AT 625 PM CST

DO NOT RUN OUTSIDE TO FIND THE TORNADO - TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU
CANNOT GET UNDERGROUND...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
AVOID WINDOWS!

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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 18, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	45 min
Feb 18, 4:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	32 min
Feb 18, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	25 min
Feb 18, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	52 min
Feb 18, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Grenada	37 min
Feb 18, 5:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower, Washington	41 min
Feb 18, 5:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Grenada	34 min
Feb 18, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leflore	45 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.