Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 708, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2008, 10:01 PM CDT for Clarke County, Jasper County, Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2008, 10:01 PM CDT (03:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2008, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clarke County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Newton County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 10:27 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 N Heidelberg, MS | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND POWER OUTAGES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 2703 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KJAN 030301
SVRJAN
MSC023-061-101-030330-
/O.NEW.KJAN.SV.W.0708.080803T0301Z-080803T0330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1001 PM CDT SAT AUG 2 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CLARKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF QUITMAN...
EASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEWTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
* AT 1001 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
SABLE...OR 11 MILES NORTH OF QUITMAN...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 26 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
STONEWALL BY 1010 PM CDT...
QUITMAN AND 8 MILES EAST OF ORANGE BY 1020 PM CDT...
DE SOTO...6 MILES EAST OF BARNETT AND 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
GOODWATER BY 1030 PM CDT...
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.
LAT...LON 3189 8846 3188 8848 3183 8875 3182 8915
3221 8904 3222 8904 3223 8903 3223 8843
TIME...MOT...LOC 0301Z 013DEG 23KT 3219 8875
$$
EECThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Clay, Oktibbeha, Webster | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Montgomery, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Webster, Winston | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Kemper, Neshoba, Winston | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Leake, Neshoba | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton | 24 min |
| Aug 2, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Scott | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Scott, Yazoo | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Leake | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Montgomery | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton, Rankin, Scott, Smith | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Leflore | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Sharkey, Washington, Yazoo | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds, Issaquena, Madison, Rankin, Sharkey and 2 more | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Jefferson | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey, Yazoo | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren | 28 min |
| Aug 2, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson, Warren | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 12:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Yazoo | 117 min |
| Aug 3, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 2:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Yazoo | 109 min |
| Aug 3, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 31 min |
| Aug 3, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 23 min |
| Aug 3, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Leflore | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 4:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 49 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.