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Tornado Warning 85, NWS Jackson, MS

November 8, 2000Hinds County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 5:57 PM CST for Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 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, 5:57 PM CST (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hinds 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 20 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 082358
TORJAN

MSC049-090030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 557 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF UTICA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR RAYMOND AT 620 PM CST
  BE NEAR JACKSON AT 630 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!

TORNADOES AT NIGHT AR$E ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW!

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LAT...LON 3206 9037 3221 9018 3226 9021 3234 9013
          3241 9014 3241 9022 3248 9023 3206 9069

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, 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

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.