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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Jackson, MS

November 8, 2000Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 1:45 PM CST for Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 30 min. 3 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: Nov 8, 2000, 1:45 PM CST (19:45 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Catahoula Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 8, 1:58 PM CST	Tornado F2	Sicily Is, LA	The garage of a house was significantly damaged. A shed and a trampoline were blown off of the property. The tornado exited Catahoula Parish and went into Franklin Parish.
Nov 8, 2:10 PM CST	Tornado F2	Wisner, LA	The tornado moved out of Catahoula Parish and blew down numerous trees in a rural area of extreme southeastern Franklin Parish. The tornado then moved into west central Tensas Parish.
Nov 8, 2:20 PM CST	Tornado F2	Cooter Pt, LA	This tornado moved out of extreme southeastern Franklin Parish into west central Tensas Parish. The tornado completely destroyed a mobile home. Four houses were heavily damaged, including a brick home. Several people in the brick home received minor injuries.

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
Nov 8, 12:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 081946
TORJAN

LAC025-082015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
145 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 145 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR HARRISONBURG...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  FERRIDAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR SICILY ISLAND AT 200 PM CST

LAT...LON 3165 9179 3172 9170 3175 9169 3175 9164
          3184 9156 3189 9158 3193 9151 3200 9151
          3195 9156 3196 9163 3189 9169 3187 9177
   R       3190 9180 3177 9195

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, 1:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula	29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.