Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 721, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2008, 11:13 PM CDT for Bolivar County, Sunflower County, Washington County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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, 11:13 PM CDT (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2008, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bolivar County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Washington County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 11:42 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Se Rosedale, MS | A FEW TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN AROUND BEULAH. |
| Aug 2, 11:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Scott, MS | LIMBS DOWN AROUND TOWN |
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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 2956 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KJAN 030413
SVRJAN
MSC011-133-151-030500-
/O.NEW.KJAN.SV.W.0721.080803T0413Z-080803T0500Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1113 PM CDT SAT AUG 2 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SHELBY...SHAW...ROSEDALE...
CLEVELAND...
SUNFLOWER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PARCHMAN...RULEVILLE...INDIANOLA...
DREW...
NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LELAND...GREENVILLE...
* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
* AT 1113 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL...
AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR SHAW...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 13 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SHAW BY 1125 PM CDT...
HOLLY RIDGE AND INDIANOLA BY MIDNIGHT 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 3399 9045 3362 9046 3332 9076 3322 9108
3345 9106 3339 9118 3346 9111 3351 9115
3351 9117 3344 9123 3346 9123 3371 9117
3368 9104 3378 9115 3379 9099 3385 9107
3394 9103 3407 9081
TIME...MOT...LOC 0413Z 337DEG 11KT 3363 9079
$$
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, 10:01 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, 10:14 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, 11:17 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.