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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 586

July 17, 20006 counties in Arkansas; 5 parishes in Louisiana; 76 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 17, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT for 6 counties in Arkansas; 5 parishes in Louisiana; 76 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 87 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Desha County, AR, Lee County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Concordia Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Alcorn County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Greene County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	35 min
Jul 17, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	29 min
Jul 17, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	35 min
Jul 17, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	46 min
Jul 17, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Holmes	47 min
Jul 17, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	45 min
Jul 17, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	43 min
Jul 17, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Concordia	28 min
Jul 17, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	24 min
Jul 17, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	28 min
Jul 17, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	36 min
Jul 17, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	36 min
Jul 17, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	41 min
Jul 17, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	33 min
Jul 17, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren, Yazoo	37 min

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 3640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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.