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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 305, NWS Jackson, MS

May 24, 2001Rankin County, Simpson County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 7:14 PM CDT for Rankin County, Simpson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2001, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Rankin County, MS, Simpson County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 7:21 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Star, MS	Large hail of up to golfball size damaged the roofs of buildings and cars in and around the community of Star.
May 24, 7:29 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Brandon, MS
May 24, 7:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Braxton, MS	Many trees were blown down in mostly rural sections of northern Simpson county.
May 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Johns, MS	Hail as large as golfball size caused damage to the roofs of buildings and cars in and around the town of Johns.
May 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Star, MS	Several trees and large limbs were blown down.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 18 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: 583 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 5.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KJAN 250019 CCA
SVRJAN
MSC121-127-250045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
714 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  SIMPSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 714 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ON THE PEARL RIVER WEST OF HARRISVILLE.

IT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  BE NEAR STAR AT 725 PM CDT

HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTA$NTIAL SHELTER WHILE THE STORM PASSES.

WINDS UP TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3191 9013 3196 8970 3252 8989 3232 9014
          3226 9019 3221 9017 3217 9023 3200 9022

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 24, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
230 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

COLD FRONT IS POISED TO ENTER THE EXTREME NORTHWESTERN CWFA. LATEST
OBSERVATIONS HAVE THE FRONT JUST WEST OF GLH. A COUPLE OF INTERESTING
THINGS TO NOTE: DEWPOINTS IN THE NORTH (GLH,GWO,CBM) ARE IN THE
LOWER 60S...WHILE THE REST OF THE CWFA HAS DEWPOINTS IN THE 50S.
THIS INDICATES MOISTURE IS POOLING ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONTAL
BOUNDARY. GOOD CU FIELD IS ALSO POPPING UP ALONG THE COLD FRONT. 88D
INDICATING SOME LIGHT SHOWERS OVER NE MS AT THIS TIME.

TONIGHT IS THE MAIN PERIOD IN QUESTION. COLD FRONT WILL MOVE
SOUTHWARD THROUGH MOST OF THE STATE TONIGHT AND SHOULD BE ALONG THE
GULF COAST BY MIDDAY TOMORROW. AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHWARD...
IT WILL BE MOVING INTO AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS. LIS WILL RANGE FROM -2
TO -6...CAPES WILL RANGE FROM 1000 TO 2000 J/KG OVERNIGHT...AND THE
K INDEX WILL RANGE FROM 25 TO 30. ALSO...RRQ OF 250 JET WILL BE IN
THE NEIGHBORHOOD. ANOTHER THING TO CONSIDER IS THE SHORTWAVE THAT
WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE CWFA TONIGHT. THE
LIMITING FACTOR FOR CONVECTION IS THE LACK OF AVAILABLE MOISTURE.
AIRMASS IS FAIRLY DRY...WITH THE ONLY GOOD MOISTURE POOLING ALONG
THE FRONT. THAT HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGING...SURFACE DEWPOINTS
HAVE BEEN SLOWLY RISING OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE CWFA THE PAST
FEW HOURS. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION. CONVECTION SHOULD
STAY SCATTERED IN NATURE (LACK OF ABUNDANT MOISTURE) AND MAINLY BE
CONCENTRATED ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY WHERE THE BEST
INSTABILITY WILL BE TONIGHT.

FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SHORT TERM...SHOWERS MAY LINGER INTO THE
EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS IN THE SOUTH UNTIL THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY MAKES
ITS WAY INTO THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO. OTHERWISE...THE CWFA WILL
BE DRY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE SHORT TERM. TEMPS WILL BE A FEW
DEGREES COOLER BEHIND THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY...AND DEFINITELY BELOW
NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. MAV GUIDANCE LOOKS A LITTLE TOO COOL
ON THE MINS...BUT MAX TEMPS LOOK FAIRLY REASONABLE. WILL MAKE ONLY
SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS...AND WILL MORE THAN LIKELY TAKE AVERAGE BETWEEN
MAV AND MOS FOR MINS.

HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN BEHIND THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND STAY IN
PLACE UNTIL SUNDAY. THE NEXT FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL APPROACH LATE
SUNDAY INTO MONDAY AND MOVE SOUTH OF THE AREA EARLY TUESDAY. BY
EARLY WEDNESDAY...THE BOUNDARY WILL BEGIN MOVING BACK NORTH OVER THE
CWFA...INCREASING THE CHANCES OF PRECIP AGAIN. TEMPS SHOULD STAY
BELOW NORMAL VALUES.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
JAN 55/78/54/81 3100
MEI 55/78/52/82 4100

.JAN...
MS...NONE.
LA...NONE.
AR...NONE.

32

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 4:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...FROM EARLY MORNING STORMS...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
402 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0300 AM    CALEDONIA                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/01   LOWNDES                        LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC

0210 AM    EUPORA                    MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/01   WEBSTER                        PUBLIC REPORTED
                                          NUMEROUS LARGE TREE
                                          LIMBS DOWN.

Local storm report, May 24, 6:27 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
627 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0624 PM    2 W NATCHEZ               LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   CONCORDIA                      CD REPORTED GOLFBALL
                                          HAIL

Local storm report, May 24, 6:37 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
637 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0630 PM    MAYNA                     LA   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   CATAHOULA                      PUBLIC REPORT OF
                                          GOLFBALL HAIL IN THE
                                          WILLOW LAKE AREA.

Local storm report, May 24, 7:00 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
700 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0643 PM    WILDSVILLE                LA   4.50 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   CONCORDIA                      SHERIFFS OFFICE
                                          REPORTE SOFTBALL SIZE
                                          HAIL

0655 PM    CRYSTAL SPRINGS           MS   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   COPIAH                         PUBLIC REPORT OF NICKEL
                                          HAIL THROUGH WABT-TV

Local storm report, May 24, 7:02 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
702 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0635 PM    2 N NATCHEZ               MS   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   ADAMS                          CD REPORTED QUARTER
                                          HAIL.

Local storm report, May 24, 7:13 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
713 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0705 PM    5 NNE NATCHEZ             MS   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   ADAMS                          CD REPORTED QUARTER
                                          SIZE HAIL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	29 min
May 24, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	49 min
May 24, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	33 min
May 24, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Smith	59 min
May 24, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Simpson	47 min
May 24, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	44 min
May 24, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	45 min
May 24, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	26 min
May 24, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	35 min
May 24, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	26 min
May 24, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	30 min
May 24, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	28 min
May 24, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	29 min
May 24, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	32 min
May 24, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	35 min
May 25, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	32 min
May 25, 2:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	28 min

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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.