Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 881
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 2, 2008, 6:34 AM CDT for 22 parishes in Louisiana; 52 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2008, 6:34 AM CDT (11:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 74 counties
Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Stone County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 40%
Warnings issued inside it
60 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 21 min |
| Sep 2, 6:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 43 min |
| Sep 2, 7:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 18 min |
| Sep 2, 7:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith | 50 min |
| Sep 2, 7:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Stone | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 7:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 40 min |
| Sep 2, 7:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 51 min |
| Sep 2, 7:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 55 min |
| Sep 2, 7:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 50 min |
| Sep 2, 7:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 48 min |
| Sep 2, 8:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 16 min |
| Sep 2, 8:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren, Yazoo | 39 min |
| Sep 2, 8:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 8:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 46 min |
| Sep 2, 8:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 18 min |
| Sep 2, 8:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 8:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jasper, Jones | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 8:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 8:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Scott, Smith | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 8:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 48 min |
| Sep 2, 9:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Saint Helena and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 2, 9:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 61 min |
| Sep 2, 9:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton, Scott, Smith | 61 min |
| Sep 2, 10:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 67 min |
| Sep 2, 10:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 35 min |
| Sep 2, 10:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones, Newton | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 10:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 10:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Leake, Madison | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 10:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 5 hr |
| Sep 2, 10:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 41 min |
| Sep 2, 10:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Feliciana | 15 min |
| Sep 2, 11:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 11:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 11:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 118 min |
| Sep 2, 11:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 28 min |
| Sep 2, 12:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton | 41 min |
| Sep 2, 12:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 12:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 41 min |
| Sep 2, 12:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Issaquena, Madison, Rankin and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Jones | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Sep 2, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 10 min |
| Sep 2, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 26 min |
| Sep 2, 2:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 22 min |
| Sep 2, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington | 35 min |
| Sep 2, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 46 min |
| Sep 2, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Sep 2, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 37 min |
| Sep 2, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 38 min |
| Sep 2, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 51 min |
| Sep 2, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott, Smith | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 3:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Saint Helena and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Washington | 13 min |
| Sep 2, 3:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds, Issaquena, Madison, Rankin, Warren and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln, Rankin, Simpson | 4 hr |
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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 404 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 441 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 11:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia, East Carroll and 23 more | 59 min |
| Sep 1, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa and 1 more | 93 min |
| Sep 2, 6:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston and 9 more | 56 min |
| Sep 2, 3:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 16 more | 64 min |
| Sep 2, 3:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate, Tunica | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeSoto, Marshall, Panola, Tate, Tunica | 2 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.