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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 5:45 PM CST for Leflore County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 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, 5:45 PM CST (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leflore County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 6:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Itta Bena, MS | Numerous large limbs 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 182347 TORJAN MSC083-190030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 545 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LEFLORE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 545 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF ITTA BENA NEAR HIGHWAY 82...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR ITTA BENA AT 555 PM CST NEAR SIDON AT 600 PM CST NEAR GREENWOOD AT 605 PM CST THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY BE PRODUCING A TORNADO NOW!! DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW! PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE. 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, 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 |
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.