Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 23
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 13, 2000, 1:30 PM CST for 6 counties in Arkansas; 10 parishes in Louisiana; 30 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2000, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Caldwell Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 1:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 29 min |
| Feb 13, 1:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita, Union | 37 min |
| Feb 13, 1:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 20 min |
| Feb 13, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Quitman, Tunica | 34 min |
| Feb 13, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Jackson, Ouachita | 47 min |
| Feb 13, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 25 min |
| Feb 13, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Richland | 27 min |
| Feb 13, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 35 min |
| Feb 13, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 35 min |
| Feb 13, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Yazoo | 36 min |
| Feb 13, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 50 min |
| Feb 13, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 43 min |
| Feb 13, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 32 min |
| Feb 13, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 35 min |
| Feb 13, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 31 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
715 WWUS9 KMKC 131850 SEL3 SEL3 MKC WW 131850 ARZ000-LAZ000-MSZ000-140100- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 23 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1250 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS NORTHEAST LOUISIANA NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSISSIPPI EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 130 PM UNTIL 700 PM CST. ...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION... DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 70 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF MONROE LOUISIANA TO 40 MILES NORTH OF OXFORD MISSISSIPPI. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS ARE INCREASING ACROSS NRN LA WELL AHEAD OF SURFACE DRYLINE. DEEP LAYER SHEAR IS QUITE SUPPORTIVE OF ORGANIZED CONVECTION WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR A FEW TORNADOES. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24040. ...VESCIO 345,0881 315,0903 315,0925 345,0904
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 13, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 7 more | 4 hr |
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.