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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Jackson, MS

November 8, 2000Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 1:16 PM CST for Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 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: Nov 8, 2000, 1:16 PM CST (19:16 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Catahoula Parish, LA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 8, 12:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 081917
TORJAN

LAC025-081945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
116 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CATAHOULA PARISH IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 145 PM CST

* AT 116 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JONESVILLE....MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR JONESVILLE AT 125 PM CST

RADAR SHOWS STRONG SIGNS THAT A TORNADO IS DEVELOPING - TAKE COVER
NOW!

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 5:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula	32 min
Nov 8, 5:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula	28 min
Nov 8, 5:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Concordia	31 min
Nov 8, 6:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Concordia	36 min
Nov 8, 1:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula	25 min
Nov 8, 1:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula	30 min
Nov 8, 1:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin	50 min
Nov 8, 2:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Tensas	47 min
Nov 8, 2:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	38 min
Nov 8, 2:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	40 min
Nov 8, 4:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Concordia	51 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.