Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 289, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 2:28 AM CST for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 62 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 9, 2000, 2:28 AM CST (08:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Jackson County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:27 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.
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 9, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 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
WUUS54 KLIX 090831
SVRNEW
MSC059-090930-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
228 AM CST THU NOV 9 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ESCATAWPA...MOSS POINT
* UNTIL 330 AM CST
* AT 222 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BILOXI...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
OCEAN SPRINGS AT 238 AM CST
3 MILES NORTHWEST OF VANCLEAVE AT 250 AM CST
OVER WADE AT 305 AM CST
DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. WEATHER BUOYS IN THE
NEARBY COASTAL WATERS HAVE MEASURED WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. HEAVY
RAINS MAY ALSO PRODUCE STREET FLOODING IN LOW LYING AND POORLY
DRAINED AREAS.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING
FOR JACKSON COUNTY.
LAT...LON 3066 8843 3074 8842 3075 8875 3075 8887
3043 8887 3040 8879 3038 8843What 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 Nov 8, 3:01 PM CST, 11 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 3:01 PM CST, 11 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 300 PM CST NOV 08 2000 SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED UNTIL EARLY THU MORNING. WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL PERSIST AHEAD OF THE ADVANCING SQUALL LINE AND COLD FRONT. EXPECT THE FRONT TO BEGIN ACCELERATING EAST ONCE THE SURFACE LOW MOVES INTO NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. EXPECT THE SQUALL LINE TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PART OF THE CWA...BATON ROUGH AREA... BETWEEN 9 PM AND MIDNIGHT AND CONTINUE EAST INTO THE NEW ORLEANS AREA AROUND 3 AM THU MORNING. BY THIS TIME THE FRONT AND SQUALL LINE SHOULD BE MOVING ON RAPIDLY EASTWARD WITH WITH SKIES CLEARING RAPIDLY FROM THE WEST DURING THE DAY THU. TEMPS MAY BE A LITTLE OFF DUE TO THE TIMING OF THE FRONT. WENT PRIMARILY WITH THE MOS GUIDANCE FROM THE MRF FOR TEMPS AND POPS IN THE EXTENDED PORTION OF THE FORECAST. EXPECT HEAVY RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES. SEE NO THREAT OF SIGNIFICANT FLOODING SINCE THE FRONT WILL BE MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 KT AND INDIVIDUAL TSTMS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST IN EXCESS OF 25 KT. NO STRONG THICKNESS DIFFLUENCE OR TRAINING EXPECTED TO PERSIST FOR ANY EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. MCB BU 054/060 040/065 042 17+10 BTR BU 055/062 040/067 044 17+10 MSY BU 058/063 049/066 049 17920 GPT CU 065/067 046/066 043 17940 .NEW...SCA PASCAGOULA TO ATCHAFALAYA RIVER INCLUDING LAKES PONTCHARTRAIN AND MAUREPAS. LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 17
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 9, 2:04 AM CST, 24 minutes before
LAZ038>040-050-057>068-070-MSZ071-077-080-091000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 204 AM CST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS CANCELLED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 791 FOR THE FOLLOWING PARISHES IN LOUISIANA... WASHINGTON...TANGIPAHOA...ST TAMMANY...LIVINGSTON...ST JAMES... ST JOHN THE BAPTIST...ST CHARLES...JEFFERSON...ORLEANS...ST BERNARD ...LAFOURCHE AND TERREBONNE. THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LOWER PLAQUEMINES PARISH UNTIL 5 AM CST. IN MISSISSIPPI...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI... WALTHALL...PEARL RIVER...HANCOCK. THE TORNADO WyATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HARRISON AND JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 5 AM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 9:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite | 47 min |
| Nov 8, 10:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike | 67 min |
| Nov 8, 10:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 67 min |
| Nov 9, 12:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 27 min |
| Nov 9, 12:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 29 min |
| Nov 9, 1:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.