Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 1:39 PM CST for Lafayette County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 1:39 PM CST (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 2:25 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 1:40 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Paris, MS | The tornado first developed just south of Highway 315 in the community of Hawkins Crossing and moved northeast across the northeast corner of Yalobusha county. The tornado continued into southwest Lafayette county and continued to travel northeast ending in Un |
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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 513 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 031939 TORMEM MSC071-032025- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 139 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 225 PM CST * AT 136 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES EAST OF OXFORD OR 3 MILES NORTH OF DENMARK... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR PARIS AROUND 130 PM CST. THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE THROUGH THE HOLLY SPRINGS NATIONAL FOREST AND THE NORTHEAST PART OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY. .A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CdAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 1:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Union | 47 min |
| Jan 3, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tippah | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.