Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 2012, 8:42 PM CST for Leake County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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
- Jan 8, 2012, 8:42 PM CST (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2012, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Leake County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 8:50 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Lena, MS | ROOF PARTIALLY BLOWN OFF A HOUSE. METAL ON POWER LINES IN THE CITY OF LENA. |
| Jan 8, 8:50 PM CST | HAIL 1 | Lena, MS | |
| Jan 8, 9:06 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Se Carthage, MS | TREES DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 488 NEAR FREENY |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
704 WUUS54 KJAN 090242 SVRJAN MSC079-090330- /O.NEW.KJAN.SV.W.0004.120109T0242Z-120109T0330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 842 PM CST SUN JAN 8 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LEAKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF EDINBURG... * UNTIL 930 PM CST * AT 840 PM CST...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 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TUSCOLA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LENA BY 850 PM CST... TUSCOLA BY 855 PM CST... STANDING PINE BY 905 PM CST MADDEN BY 915 PM CST... EDINBURG BY 930 PM CST... 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. THE HAIL BEING PRODUCED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY DAMAGE CARS AND ROOFS. PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT OF DOORS SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRUCTURE IMMEDIATELY. && LAT...LON 3284 8933 3258 8933 3258 8940 3258 8972 TIME...MOT...LOC 0240Z 229DEG 25KT 3254 8961 $$ 40
1 follow-up statement
637 WWUS54 KJAN 090310 SVSJAN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 910 PM CST SUN JAN 8 2012 MSC079-090330- /O.CON.KJAN.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-120109T0330Z/ LEAKE MS- 910 PM CST SUN JAN 8 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CST FOR SOUTHEASTERN LEAKE COUNTY... AT 910 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STANDING PINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MADDEN BY 915 PM CST... EDINBURG BY 925 PM CST... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS OF 60 MPH CAN BRING DOWN TREES...POSSIBLY RESULTING IN INJURY AND PROPERTY DAMAGE. ROOFS OF MOBILE HOMES AND OUTBUILDINGS COULD BE DAMAGED...AND MINOR ROOF DAMAGE TO WELL BUILT HOMES AND STRUCTURES COULD OCCUR. && LAT...LON 3258 8933 3267 8959 3284 8933 TIME...MOT...LOC 0310Z 230DEG 26KT 3270 8945 $$ 40
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 7:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington | 26 days |
| Jan 8, 8:03 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jones | 42 min |
| Jan 8, 8:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Scott | 42 min |
| Jan 8, 8:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott | 47 min |
| Jan 8, 9:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jones | 27 min |
| Jan 8, 9:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba | 31 min |
| Jan 8, 10:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 41 min |
| Jan 8, 10:32 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Leake | 28 min |
| Jan 8, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 11:07 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Clarke | 28 min |
| Jan 8, 11:10 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Noxubee | 30 min |
| Jan 9, 5:04 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | JAN | Adams, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay and 33 more | 5 hr |
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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.