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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 4:53 PM CST for Grenada County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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 18, 2000, 4:53 PM CST (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grenada County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Hardy, MS | Several trees were blown down by this weak tornado. |
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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 182254 TORJAN MSC043-182330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 453 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRENADA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 453 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 17 MILES WEST OF GRENADA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF CHARLESTON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR GRENADA AT 510 PM CST MOTORISTS SHOULD LOOK FOR SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE COVER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. OVERPASSES ARE NOT SAFE! LAT...LON 3394 9015 3376 9016 3371 8946 3394 8945 62
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, 4:13 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.