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Tornado Warning 81, NWS Jackson, MS

November 8, 2000Holmes County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 4:50 PM CST for Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2000, 4:50 PM CST (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Holmes County, MS

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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.

180 
WFUS54 KJAN 082250
TORJAN
MSC051-082330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 450 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF
  YAZOO CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR LEXINGTON AT 510 PM CST
  BE NEAR DURANT AT 515 PM CST

MOTORISTS SHOULD LOOK FOR SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...TAKE COVER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. OVERPASSES ARE NOT
SAFE

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING
DEBRIS.

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LAT...LON 3321 8975 3326 8985 3327 8996 3300 9024
          3291 9003 3307 8983

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, 3:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	36 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.