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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 143

April 2, 2000Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas; 17 parishes in Louisiana; 11 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 2, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT for Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas; 17 parishes in Louisiana; 11 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT (09:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2000, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 30 counties

Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Claiborne County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Madison County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

Warnings issued inside it

6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 4:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Jackson, Lincoln	44 min
Apr 2, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, West Carroll	25 min
Apr 2, 6:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	32 min
Apr 2, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	37 min
Apr 2, 7:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	31 min
Apr 2, 7:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	34 min

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 537 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 851 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 1:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beauregard, Bienville, De Soto, Grant, Natchitoches, Rapides and 4 more	6 hr
Apr 2, 12:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 5 more	6 hr
Apr 2, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland and 2 more	6 hr
Apr 2, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 7 more	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Louisiana, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.