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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Jackson, MS

February 18, 2000Sunflower County, Washington County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 5:19 PM CST for Sunflower County, Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 41 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 18, 2000, 5:19 PM CST (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Feb 18, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Sunflower County, MS, Washington County, MS

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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 317 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 352 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 182320
TORJAN
MSC133-151-190000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
519 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SUNFLOWER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 519 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF LELAND...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR INDIANOLA AT 530 PM CST
  NEAR SUNFLOWER AT 535 PM CST
  NEAR MOORHEAD AT 540 PM CST

RADAR SHOWS STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING - TAKE COVER
NOW!

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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, 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, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Grenada	37 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.