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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 362, NWS Jackson, MS

July 18, 2006Kemper County, Neshoba County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2006, 2:05 PM CDT for Kemper County, Neshoba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 18, 2006, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2006, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kemper County, MS, Neshoba County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 1679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1330 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 18, 10:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 10:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 18, 2:00 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
200 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0150 PM     LIGHTNING        4 WSW RAYMOND           32.24N 90.49W
07/18/2006                   HINDS              MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            LIGHTNING STRUCK A CHURCH AND CAUGHT IT ON FIRE. CHURCH
            IS LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF DUPREE ROAD AND OLD
            PORT GIBSON ROAD.

0150 PM     HAIL             4 WSW RAYMOND           32.24N 90.49W
07/18/2006  E0.75 INCH       HINDS              MS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            PENNY SIZED HAIL ESTIMATED AT INTERSECTION OF DUPREE ROAD
            AND OLD PORT GIBSON ROAD 4 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF
            RAYMOND, MS.

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JFAIRLY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	26 min
Jul 18, 3:13 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 41 more	28 hr
Jul 18, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	32 min
Jul 18, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	33 min
Jul 18, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	27 min
Jul 18, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	28 min
Jul 18, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	35 min
Jul 18, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	23 min
Jul 18, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	35 min
Jul 18, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.