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Tornado Warning 76, NWS Jackson, MS

November 8, 2000Madison Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 2:50 PM CST for Madison Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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, 2:50 PM CST (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Madison Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 8, 3:00 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Afton, LA	A few trees were blown down.

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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 082051
TORJAN

LAC065-082130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 250 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTH OF TALLULAH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR TALLULAH AT 305 PM CST

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGE IN 
CATAHOUOLA...FRANKLIN...AND TENSAS PARISHES.
 
LAT...LON 3225 9138 3223 9112 3233 9097 3247 9113

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, 1:45 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, 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.