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Tornado Warning 87, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2000, 1:25 AM CST for Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 9, 2000, 1:25 AM CST (07:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 2:15 AM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Forrest County, MS, Lamar County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 1:30 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove, MS | Several trees were blown down. |
| Nov 9, 1:40 AM CST | Hail 1 | Hattiesburg, MS | Brief period of golfball sized hail caused some roof damage. |
| Nov 9, 1:50 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Purvis, MS | This F0 tornado knocked down some trees in a rural area. |
| Nov 9, 2:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Hattiesburg, 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, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 709 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KJAN 090726 TORJAN MSC035-073-090815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 125 AM CST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FORREST COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LAMAR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 215 AM CST * AT 125 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER PURVIS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WEST HATTIESBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO... BE NEAR WEST HATTIESBURG AT 135 AM CST BE NEAR HATTIESBURG AT 140 AM CST BE NEAR PETAL AT 145 AM 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 ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO - IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW! 62
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 37 min |
| Nov 8, 6:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 46 min |
| Nov 8, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin | 50 min |
| Nov 8, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 41 min |
| Nov 8, 7:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 47 min |
| Nov 8, 8:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 48 min |
| Nov 8, 8:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 99 min |
| Nov 8, 8:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin, Jefferson | 115 min |
| Nov 8, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee, Winston | 49 min |
| Nov 8, 10:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 2 hr |
| Nov 8, 10:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 47 min |
| Nov 8, 11:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah | 119 min |
| Nov 8, 11:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 43 min |
| Nov 9, 12:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Leake, Madison, Rankin | 105 min |
| Nov 9, 12:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 46 min |
| Nov 9, 12:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 3 hr |
| Nov 9, 12:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar | 32 min |
| Nov 9, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 30 min |
| Nov 9, 2:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 32 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.