Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 8:18 PM CST for Lowndes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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, 8:18 PM CST (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lowndes County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 8:25 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Golden Triangle Rgnl, MS | This tornado passed through open field and no damage was reported. |
| Feb 18, 8:40 PM CST | Hail 1 | Columbus, 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 190218 TORJAN MSC087-190300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 818 PM CST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LOWNDES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 818 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRAWFORD...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF STARKVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR COLUMBUS AT 840 PM CST NEAR NEW HOPE AT 845 PM CST TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVERT NOW! 62
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, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 24 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.