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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 434, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2008, 4:56 PM CDT for Covington County, Lamar County, Mississippi. 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
- Jun 15, 2008, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Covington County, MS, Lamar County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 1781 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 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 Jun 15, 4:22 PM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 4:22 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 144 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 2008 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 161845- 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- 144 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND MONDAY ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND PERIOD OF HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED. PONDING OF WATER IS LIKELY ON ROADWAYS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. THE ACTIVITY WILL DIMINISH BY 9 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY TUESDAY MORNING FOR THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA...GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 55. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT WILL SINK SOUTH INTO THE ARKLAMISS AFTER MIDNIGHT MONDAY NIGHT. OTHERWISE...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 NOT EXPECTED THROUGH NEXT SATURDAY. 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, Jun 15, 2:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 244 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 2008 MSZ057-152015- JASPER MS- 244 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 2008 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER STRINGER AT 244 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 3 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. HIGH WINDS CAN BRING DOWN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS RESULTING IN SERIOUS INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN OUTDOORS DURING SUCH STRONG WINDS...AND BE ESPECIALLY AWARE OF OLDER TREES. PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST JASPER COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF STRINGER...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. CME
Local storm report, Jun 15, 4:34 PM CDT, 22 minutes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 29 min |
| Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 55 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.