Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2012, 3:23 PM CDT for Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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
- May 30, 2012, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2012, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Holmes County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:35 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Lexington, MS | MOTH BALL SIZE HAIL |
| May 30, 3:35 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 1 E Lexington, MS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 1192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1334 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
026
WUUS54 KJAN 302023
SVRJAN
MSC051-302100-
/O.NEW.KJAN.SV.W.0285.120530T2023Z-120530T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
323 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 400 PM CDT
* AT 323 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
LEXINGTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
LEXINGTON BY 330 PM CDT...
BOWLING GREEN AND EMORY BY 400 PM CDT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WINDS OF 60 MPH CAN BRING DOWN TREES...POSSIBLY RESULTING IN INJURY
AND PROPERTY DAMAGE. ROOFS OF MOBILE HOMES AND OUTBUILDINGS COULD BE
DAMAGED...AND MINOR ROOF DAMAGE TO WELL BUILT HOMES AND STRUCTURES
COULD OCCUR.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND
NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3331 9012 3331 9010 3330 9008 3324 8985
3300 9002 3307 9022 3332 9013
TIME...MOT...LOC 2023Z 203DEG 7KT 3312 9008
$$
GRGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 11:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 41 min |
| May 30, 12:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Bolivar | 31 min |
| May 30, 12:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Washington | 29 min |
| May 30, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 59 min |
| May 30, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 27 min |
| May 30, 1:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Washington | 41 min |
| May 30, 1:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Sunflower | 39 min |
| May 30, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 44 min |
| May 30, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower | 55 min |
| May 30, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes, Leflore | 46 min |
| May 30, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 66 min |
| May 30, 3:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Noxubee | 45 min |
| May 30, 3:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Washington | 61 min |
| May 30, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington | 63 min |
| May 30, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Yazoo | 32 min |
| May 30, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey, Yazoo | 51 min |
| May 30, 3:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Holmes | 2 hr |
| May 30, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Montgomery | 20 min |
| May 30, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 23 min |
| May 30, 3:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Noxubee | 61 min |
| May 30, 3:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Kemper | 40 min |
| May 30, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren | 50 min |
| May 30, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston | 43 min |
| May 30, 4:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren | 2 hr |
| May 30, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 49 min |
| May 30, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 36 min |
| May 30, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 67 min |
| May 30, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 48 min |
| May 30, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 29 min |
| May 30, 5:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 113 min |
| May 30, 5:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Warren | 2 hr |
| May 30, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Simpson | 31 min |
| May 30, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lauderdale | 37 min |
| May 30, 5:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 2 hr |
| May 30, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 23 min |
| May 30, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln, Simpson | 42 min |
| May 30, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lauderdale | 38 min |
| May 30, 6:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 88 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.