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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this freeze warning at Mar 24, 2008, 3:39 AM CDT for 21 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Mar 24, 2008, 1:53 PM CDT. It was in force for 19 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2008, 3:39 AM CDT (08:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 24, 2008, 1:53 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2008, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
All 21 counties
Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Scott County, MS, Smith County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 2938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Mar 23, 9:35 PM CDT, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 9:35 PM CDT, 6 hours 4 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.