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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 416, NWS Jackson, MS

June 11, 20084 counties in Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2008, 4:46 PM CDT for 4 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 11, 2008, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2008, 5:20 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Clarke County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Newton County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 411 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 970 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 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.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 5:40 PM CDT, 23 hours 6 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
540 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2008

ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074-
111915-
ASHLEY-CHICOT-MOREHOUSE-WEST CARROLL-EAST CARROLL-RICHLAND-
MADISON LA-FRANKLIN LA-CATAHOULA-TENSAS-CONCORDIA-BOLIVAR-
SUNFLOWER-LEFLORE-GRENADA-CARROLL-MONTGOMERY-WEBSTER-CLAY-LOWNDES-
CHOCTAW-OKTIBBEHA-WASHINGTON-HUMPHREYS-HOLMES-ATTALA-WINSTON-
NOXUBEE-ISSAQUENA-SHARKEY-YAZOO-MADISON MS-LEAKE-NESHOBA-KEMPER-
WARREN-HINDS-RANKIN-SCOTT-NEWTON-LAUDERDALE-CLAIBORNE-COPIAH-
SIMPSON-SMITH-JASPER-CLARKE-JEFFERSON-ADAMS-FRANKLIN MS-LINCOLN-
LAWRENCE-JEFFERSON DAVIS-COVINGTON-JONES-MARION-LAMAR-FORREST-
236 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY

A FEW ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER
THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PRIMARILY
FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LAUREL TO BROOKHAVEN LINE.
GUSTY WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH AND HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD BEGIN TO QUIET DOWN
THIS EVENING AS HEATING SUBSIDES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY

ISOLATED STRONG STORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS
OF THE ARKLAMISS REGION ON WEDNESDAY.  THE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN MOIST
AND UNSTABLE AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE
ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA SATURDAY AS A WEAK BOUNDARY TRIES TO SLOWLY
SINK SOUTH THROUGH THE AREA.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER
OPERATIONS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH MONDAY.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

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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.