Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 710, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2008, 10:14 PM CDT for Attala County, Holmes County, Leake County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2008, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Attala County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Leake County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 10:25 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Newport, MS | PENNY HAIL REPORTED IN NEWPORT. |
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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 030314 SVRJAN MSC007-051-079-030345- /O.NEW.KJAN.SV.W.0710.080803T0314Z-080803T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1014 PM CDT SAT AUG 2 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN ATTALA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHEASTERN HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... EXTREME NORTHWESTERN LEAKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1014 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEWPORT...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DURANT...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NEWPORT BY 1020 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 3289 8974 3289 8992 3305 8986 3303 8969 TIME...MOT...LOC 0314Z 014DEG 22KT 3297 8980 $$ MME
The 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, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Newton | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Scott, Yazoo | 47 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 |
Nearby
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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.