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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 4:13 PM CST for Bolivar County, Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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 18, 2000, 4:13 PM CST (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bolivar County, MS, Sunflower County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 4:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Pace, MS | A radio tower was blown down onto a house. A middle school received minor damage. Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| Feb 18, 4:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Drew, MS | The roof was blown off of a police station. Several homes were damaged. |
| Feb 18, 4:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Parchman, MS | Several homes were damaged. Tractor-trailer trucks were flipped over and several power poles 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 18, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 519 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 495 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 182214 TORJAN MSC011-133-182245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 413 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUNFLOWER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 445 PM CST * AT 413 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHELBY..?.MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR DREW AT 425 PM CST A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. 65
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 45 min |
| Feb 18, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 45 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 |
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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.