Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 1:48 PM CST for Union County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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, 1:48 PM CST (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 2:35 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado F3 | Pinedale, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 031948 TORMEM MSC145-032035- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 148 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 235 PM CST * AT 145 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR ETTA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MYRTLE BY 200 PM CST SMALCO BY 200 PvM CST .PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 1:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 46 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.