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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 588, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2008, 1:52 PM CDT for Clarke County, Mississippi. It was in force for 23 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 29, 2008, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2008, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Clarke County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 10:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 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 28, 4:00 PM CDT, 21 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 4:00 PM CDT, 21 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 400 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2008 .DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHEAST LA/SW MS EARLY THIS AFTN FORMED A MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE VORTEX WHICH IS CURRENTLY TRACKING EWD ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND EASTERN MS. HAVE UPPED POPS ACROSS SE/ERN MS TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. SEVERE POTENTIAL IS MOSTLY LIMITED TO ERN/SE MS WHERE CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL IS RELATIVELY UNTAPPED AHEAD OF APPROACHING MCV. WOULD EXPECT AN EARLY DEMISE TO CONVECTION THIS EVNG SINCE IT GOT STARTED EARLY AND SINCE MCV IS PROGRESSIVE. A BREAK IN THE ACTION WILL CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT...BUT EXPECT ANOTHER CONVECTIVE COMPLEX TO DEVELOP NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA LATE TONIGHT IN ASSOC WITH NRN STREAM TROUGH AND COLD FRONT. EXPECT THIS COMPLEX MAY MOVE INTO NRN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE PRE-DAWN AREAS...ALONG AND N OF HWY 82 IN SIMILAR THINKING TO PREVIOUS FORECAST. ORGANIZED NATURE OF THE TSTMS COULD YIELD SOME SVR WEATHER AND WILL CONTINUE MENTION OF THIS IN THE HWO. MUCH OF SVR WEATHER POTENTIAL FOR SUNDAY/SUN NIGHT WILL BE CONTINGENT ON CONVECTIVE EVOLUTION LATE TONIGHT/EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...BUT EXPECT FORCING/INSTABILITY WILL BE SUFFICIENT FOR AT LEAST MARGINALLY SVR ACTIVITY AND DEEP LAYER SHEAR WILL BE SUFFICIENT FOR STORM ORGANIZATION...ESPECIALLY OVER CNTRL/ERN MS. GENERALLY SPEAKING...THE FORECAST REMAINS THE SAME FOR SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT AND ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS WERE NEEDED. PORTIONS OF PREVIOUS DISCUSSION FOR THIS PERIOD AND THE EXTENDED FORECAST DISCUSSION FOLLOWS. /EC/ FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... THE BEST DEEP LAYER SHEAR AND MOISTURE WILL BE IN PLACE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT AS THE TROUGH CONTINUES TO DIG TO THE SOUTH. ALONG WITH INCREASING SHEAR THE AIR MASS WILL BE UNSTABLE ENOUGH SUNDAY TO MAINTAIN MENTION OF SEVERE STORMS. WITH SUCH MOISTURE IN PLACE/PW VALUES AROUND 2 INCHES/PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED. RAIN CHANCES WILL DECREASE FROM THE NORTH SUNDAY NIGHT AS THE 850 MB TROUGH TRACKS SWD AND LOW LEVEL NWLY FLOW DEVELOPS. CURRENT MODEL PROJECTIONS SHOW THE MAIN RAIN CHANCES PRIMARILY OVER SRN ZONES BY 12Z MONDAY. LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THERE WERE A FEW CHANGES IN THE EXTENDED...MAINLY TO THE POPS. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW NEXT WEEK COOLER THAN NORMAL AND WET LATER IN THE WEEK. STUCK WITH GUIDANCE FOR TEMPS AND POPS. BY MONDAY...A COLD FRONT WILL HAVE MOVED THROUGH THE CWA...WITH A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LINGERING OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWA IN THE MORNING AND DISSIPATING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. HIGH PRESSURE MOVES SOUTH INTO THE AREA AND APPEARS TO BRING SOME COOLER AND MUCH DRIER AIR INTO THE REGION. THE SURFACE HIGH SEEMS TO LINGER OVER THE CWA THROUGH THURSDAY...GUIDANCE WAS DRY...SO WENT WITH NO RAIN FOR TUES AND WED. BY EARLY THURSDAY...MOISTURE WILL BE RETURNING TO THE REGION AND RAIN WILL QUICKLY FOLLOW. IT LOOKS LIKE A WARM FRONT WILL RETURN TO THE CWA...BRINGING PLENTY OF WARM AND MOIST AIR. MAINTAINED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. WENT WITH CHANCE POPS SATURDAY INTO THE WEEKEND. ANOTHER COLD FRONT DROPS INTO THE AREA BY SATURDAY AND MIXES WITH THE WARM AND VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE. FROM TUE-THU SOUNDINGS SHOW PLENTY OF SUBSIDENCE. OF COURSE AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM CAN NOT BE RULED OUT EARLY IN THE WEEK...BUT LIKE THE DRY CONDITIONS. TEMPERATURES ALSO MAY NEED TO BE WARMED WITH DRY AIR PRESSING DOWN INTO THE CWA...EVEN WITH A COLD FRONT GOING THROUGH. FOR NOW GUIDANCE WAS GOOD. && .AVIATION...SCT SHRA AND TSRA HAVE DEVELOPED OVER MUCH OF THE ARKLAMISS REGION THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS. MAINLY VFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES WILL PREVAIL THROUGH MUCH OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE EXCEPTION WILL BE WHEN A SITE IS AFFECTED BY THIS SHRA/TSRA ACTIVITY. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO DIE DOWN AFTER SUNSET TO LEAVE THE AREA QUIET FOR A FEW HOURS. DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS INTO SUNDAY...CEILINGS WILL POSSIBLY LOWER TO GIVE MVFR CEILINGS AT TIMES. THIS TREND WILL BE FROM THE NORTH OVERNIGHT AND WILL SPREAD SOUTH THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION FROM THE NORTH OVERNIGHT...WHICH WILL BRING SCT SHRA AND TSRA TO THE NORTHWEST DELTA AFTER MIDNIGHT...AND SPREAD SOUTH INTO THE REGION THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. SHRA AND TSRA WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE ENTIRE REGION THROUGH THE DAY ON SUNDAY AS THE BOUNDARY MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. /14/ && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. && EC/07/03/14
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 6:30 PM CDT, 19 hours 22 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.