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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2000, 5:37 PM CDT for Madison Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 23 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
- Apr 2, 2000, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Tallulah, LA | Several homes and automobiles received damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
644 WFUS54 KJAN 022237 TORJAN LAC065-022300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 537 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MADISON PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 537 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF TALLULAH OR JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. 64
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse, West Carroll | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll, West Carroll | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Richland | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 6:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Concordia, Tensas | 2 hr |
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.