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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Jackson, MS

April 1, 2000Holmes County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 1, 2000, 6:53 PM CST for Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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: Apr 1, 2000, 6:53 PM CST (00:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Holmes County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 537 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 851 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 020053
TORJAN
MSC051-020130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
653 PM CST SAT APR 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 730 PM CST

* AT 653 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF TCHULA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF BELZONI...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  NEAR TCHULA AT 700 PM CST

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 6:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore	39 min
Apr 1, 10:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Leflore	29 min
Apr 1, 10:44 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada	4 hr
Apr 1, 11:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	25 min
Apr 1, 11:26 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Leflore	4 hr
Apr 1, 11:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	27 min
Apr 2, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	37 min
Apr 2, 7:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	31 min
Apr 2, 7:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	34 min
Apr 2, 9:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Holmes	110 min
Apr 2, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	43 min
Apr 2, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	44 min
Apr 2, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	28 min
Apr 2, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	36 min
Apr 2, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison, Rankin	30 min
Apr 2, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	36 min
Apr 2, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	26 min
Apr 2, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	45 min
Apr 2, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	38 min
Apr 2, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	50 min
Apr 2, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	47 min
Apr 2, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton, Scott	43 min
Apr 2, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	41 min
Apr 2, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba	47 min
Apr 2, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	43 min
Apr 2, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	45 min
Apr 2, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton	26 min
Apr 2, 6:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	2 hr
Apr 2, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	60 min
Apr 2, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee, Winston	40 min
Apr 2, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	37 min
Apr 2, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	20 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.