Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 76
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 26, 2008, 12:10 AM CST for 18 counties in Alabama; 10 parishes in Louisiana; 33 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2008, 12:10 AM CST (06:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2008, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 61 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Shelby County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Warren County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:11 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 12:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Natchitoches, Sabine | 35 min |
| Feb 26, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caldwell, Grant, LaSalle, Winn | 30 min |
| Feb 26, 1:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Grant, LaSalle | 29 min |
| Feb 26, 1:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 10 min |
| Feb 26, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Montgomery | 32 min |
| Feb 26, 1:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia, Tensas | 25 min |
| Feb 26, 1:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | LaSalle | 14 min |
| Feb 26, 1:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia, Tensas | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 2:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Warren | 35 min |
| Feb 26, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia | 30 min |
| Feb 26, 2:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 3:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Rankin, Simpson | 38 min |
| Feb 26, 3:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Feb 26, 3:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 16 min |
| Feb 26, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Shelby | 28 min |
| Feb 26, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Clay | 33 min |
| Feb 26, 4:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 36 min |
| Feb 26, 4:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 28 min |
| Feb 26, 4:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 26 min |
| Feb 26, 4:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 63 min |
| Feb 26, 4:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 35 min |
| Feb 26, 5:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 26 min |
| Feb 26, 5:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 64 min |
| Feb 26, 6:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 36 min |
| Feb 26, 6:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 18 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 11:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Fayette, Greene, Hale and 7 more | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 2:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Dallas, Fayette and 12 more | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 4:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 26, 5:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 26, 6:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 1 more | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 7:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 9:22 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 83 min |
| Feb 26, 9:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 85 min |
| Feb 25, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, East Carroll and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 15 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Louisiana, 2008Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.