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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Jackson, MS

February 18, 2000Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 7:51 PM CST for Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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, 7:51 PM CST (01:51 UTC)
Expired: Feb 18, 2000, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Oktibbeha County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 18, 8:13 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Starkville, MS

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, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 190153 COR
TORJAN
MSC105-190230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION FOR EXPIRATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
751 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OKTIBBEHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 830 PM CST

* AT 751 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF STARKVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR STARKVILLE AT 810 PM CST

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. 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 18, 6:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll	38 min
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, 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

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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.