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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 6:32 PM CDT for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2000, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Forrest County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, MS | Many trees were blown down and one tree fell on a house in Brooklyn. Many trees were blown down in rural eastern portions of county. |
| Jul 22, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hattiesburg, MS | Hail over Paul Johnson State Park caused minor damage to some cars. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 2327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
591 WFUS54 KJAN 222332 TORJAN MSC035-230000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 632 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 632 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER FORREST COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF HATTIESBURG...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER RURAL FORREST COUNTY AT 650 PM CDT 84 LAT...LON 3105 8915 3124 8915 3124 8934 3107 8934
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 30 min |
| Jul 22, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Smith | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.