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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2008, 2:31 PM CST for Morehouse Parish, Louisiana; Ashley County, Arkansas. It was in force for 64 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
- Mar 3, 2008, 2:31 PM CST (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2008, 3:35 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Ashley County, AR, Morehouse Parish, LA
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 10:36 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 3, 11:00 AM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 11:00 AM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 230 PM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 042015- ASHLEY-CHICOT-MOREHOUSE-WEST CARROLL-EAST CARROLL-RICHLAND- MADISON-FRANKLIN-CATAHOULA-TENSAS-CONCORDIA-BOLIVAR-SUNFLOWER- LEFLORE-GRENADA-CARROLL-MONTGOMERY-WEBSTER-CLAY-LOWNDES-CHOCTAW- OKTIBBEHA-WASHINGTON-HUMPHREYS-HOLMES-ATTALA-WINSTON-NOXUBEE- ISSAQUENA-SHARKEY-YAZOO-LEAKE-NESHOBA-KEMPER-WARREN-HINDS-RANKIN- SCOTT-NEWTON-LAUDERDALE-CLAIBORNE-COPIAH-SIMPSON-SMITH-JASPER- CLARKE-JEFFERSON-ADAMS-LINCOLN-LAWRENCE-JEFFERSON DAVIS-COVINGTON- JONES-MARION-LAMAR-FORREST- 230 PM CST MON MAR 3 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER WITH WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS...STRONG TORNADOES...AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...WITH SEVERE WEATHER EXITING THE REGION TO THE EAST SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. A LARGE AND POWERFUL STORM SYSTEM APPROACHING THE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO IGNITE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AS IT MOVES INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY REGION. AHEAD OF THE STRONG COLD FRONT... THIS MOISTURE WILL COMBINE WITH VERY STRONG WIND SHEAR TO BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT TORNADOES AND A MAJOR SEVERE WEATHER EPISODE. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL EXIST FROM LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH EVENING...AS SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT AND FORM INTO A SQUALL LINE. ACTIVITY OCCURRING WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 55 CORRIDOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING WILL HAVE THE GREATEST CHANCE OF PRODUCING STRONG TORNADOES...WHILE ACTIVITY TONIGHT ALONG AND EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 55 CORRIDOR WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST CHANCE OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS. THE RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO END OVER EASTERN MISSISSIPPI AROUND 2 AM TUESDAY MORNING. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER RISK...SOUTHERLY WINDS AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT WILL OCCASIONALLY GUST UP TO 35 TO 40 MPH OVER MUCH OF THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE SOME THIS EVENING...BUT WIND GUSTS TO 20 TO 25 MPH WILL STILL BE COMMON...ESPECIALLY OVER EASTERN MISSISSIPPI. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS IS UNDERWAY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 9:30 AM CST, 5 hours 1 minute before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 4:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln | 57 min |
| Mar 3, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren | 50 min |
| Mar 3, 4:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 34 min |
| Mar 3, 5:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey, Yazoo | 43 min |
| Mar 3, 5:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Sharkey, Yazoo | 57 min |
| Mar 3, 5:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.