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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Jackson, MS

May 27, 2000Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 8:04 PM CDT for Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 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: May 27, 2000, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Oktibbeha County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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: 2184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.6

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The text

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

929 
WFUS54 KJAN 280105
TORJAN
MSC105-280130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
804 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 804 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR STARKVILLE...
  MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

THIS TORNADO WILL MAINLY AFFECT SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND RURAL AREAS.

DO NOT RUN OUTSIDE TO FIND THE TORNADO - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
CANNOT GET UNDERGROUND...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
AVOID WINDOWS

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Leflore	45 min
May 27, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Montgomery	24 min
May 27, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	24 min
May 27, 7:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Washington	59 min
May 27, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Choctaw, Holmes, Yazoo	43 min
May 27, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Oktibbeha	43 min
May 27, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	29 min
May 27, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee	49 min
May 27, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	49 min
May 27, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	46 min
May 27, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	34 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.