Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2000, 1:55 PM CDT for Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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
- Jul 27, 2000, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wilkinson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 812 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLIX 271858 SVRNEW MSC157-271945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 155 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WILKINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 150 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WILKINSON. MOVEMENT WAS STATIONARY. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NEW ORLEANS. LAT...LON 3123 9141 3113 9123 3142 9095 3157 9121
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 27, 11:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 11:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 1110 AM CDT THU 27 JUL 2000 WK SHEAR AXIS NE-SW ALOFT OVER SE LA/S MS WILL MOVE LITTLE NEXT 24 TO 36 HRS. MEAN RH CONTINUES TO INCREASE SLOWLY AS WELL AS PW'S. THIS IS VERIFIED QUITE NICELY BY THE GOES SOUNDER OF THE N GULF. LATEST RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS/TSTMS FROM THE SE LA COAST SW INTO THE SW GULF. 12Z RAOBS INDICATED THE ATMOSPHERE DTO BE UNSTABLE ENOUGH FOR WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS/TSTMS OVER THE REGION LTHIS AFTERNOON..A LITTLE MORE NUMEROUS S OF THE TIDAL LAKES. 500 MB TEMP WAS -10 WHICH IS A FEW DEGS LOWER THAN NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. WET-BULB ZERO WAS ABOUT 10.5K. CONVECTIVE TEMP NEAR 90F SO THAT TSTMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTN HOURS. LITTLE CHANGE INDICATED IN THE WEATHER PATTERN FOR FRI. .NEW...NONE. LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 05
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 10:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-271700- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1050 AM CDT THU JUL 27 2000 INCREASING GULF MOISTURE AND RELATIVELY COOL TEMPERATURES ALOFT ALONG WITH INTENSE SURFACE HEATING WILL HELP TO TRIGGER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. WEAK SEA BREEZE AND LAKE BREEZE ALSO WILL LIKELY AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. SIGNIFICANT SEkVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT IS NOT LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEB-SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/LIX (ALL LOWER CASE).
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 40 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.