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Tornado Warning 77, NWS Jackson, MS

November 8, 2000Issaquena County, Warren County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 3:24 PM CST for Issaquena County, Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 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: Nov 8, 2000, 3:24 PM CST (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Issaquena County, MS, Warren County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 8, 3:25 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Vicksburg, MS	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
Nov 8, 3:45 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Vicksburg, MS	Several trees and power lines 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, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 082125
TORJAN

MSC055-149-082200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  ISSAQUENA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 324 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWESGT OF VICKSBURG... MOVING NORTHEAST 
  AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  REMAIN OVER RURAL WARREN COUNTY 

LAT...LON 3234 9107 3221 9092 3245 9059 3258 9078

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	31 min
Nov 8, 6:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	36 min
Nov 8, 12:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	35 min
Nov 8, 1:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	36 min
Nov 8, 1:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	23 min
Nov 8, 1:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	35 min
Nov 8, 1:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	32 min
Nov 8, 2:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	24 min
Nov 8, 2:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	23 min
Nov 8, 2:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	46 min
Nov 8, 3:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	41 min
Nov 8, 3:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	38 min
Nov 8, 3:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	30 min
Nov 8, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	44 min
Nov 8, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	36 min
Nov 8, 3:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	47 min
Nov 8, 4:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams	51 min
Nov 8, 4:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	33 min
Nov 8, 4:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	42 min
Nov 8, 4:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	37 min
Nov 8, 4:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	40 min
Nov 8, 5:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	27 min
Nov 8, 5:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Montgomery	33 min
Nov 8, 5:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds	25 min
Nov 8, 5:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	33 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.