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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Jackson, MS

February 18, 2000Carroll County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 6:07 PM CST for Carroll County, Mississippi. It was in force for 38 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, 6:07 PM CST (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Feb 18, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Carroll County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 18, 6:30 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Carrollton, MS	Numerous trees 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 nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 190008
TORJAN
MSC015-190045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 607 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 25 MILES WEST OF VAIDEN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF        
  GREENWOOD IN THE VICINITY OF HIGHWAY 49...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR VAIDEN AT 635 PM CST

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
BE READY FOR DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...VIOLENT WINDS AND POSiSIBLY A TORNADO.
MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE 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 18, 6:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Montgomery	45 min
Feb 18, 6:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	32 min
Feb 18, 7:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	51 min
Feb 18, 7:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	24 min
Feb 18, 8:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lowndes	42 min
Feb 18, 8:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	35 min
Feb 18, 9:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	52 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.