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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, MS

May 31, 2012Hinds County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this special weather statement at May 31, 2012, 7:49 AM CDT for Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 2012, 7:49 AM CDT (12:49 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2012, 8:35 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS

County Hinds County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 11 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1744 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 31, 4:23 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 4:23 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 5:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 6:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 7:49 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	54 min
May 30, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lawrence	40 min
May 30, 7:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jasper	29 min
May 30, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	42 min
May 30, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Adams	39 min
May 31, 6:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	28 min
May 31, 7:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds	3 hr
May 31, 8:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	3 hr
May 31, 8:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Newton	42 min
May 31, 9:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Newton	43 min
May 31, 10:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	46 min
May 31, 12:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar	44 min
May 31, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Sharkey	46 min
May 31, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	53 min
May 31, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore	63 min
May 31, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	50 min
May 31, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	50 min
May 31, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Leflore	39 min
May 31, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Warren	67 min
May 31, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	62 min
May 31, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada, Webster	66 min
May 31, 2:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	57 min
May 31, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Montgomery	56 min
May 31, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	30 min
May 31, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala, Leake, Madison	60 min
May 31, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah, Hinds, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Rankin and 1 more	62 min
May 31, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lincoln	41 min
May 31, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Holmes, Leake, Madison, Scott	63 min
May 31, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	42 min
May 31, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lawrence	44 min
May 31, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds, Leake, Madison, Rankin, Simpson	67 min
May 31, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster	61 min
May 31, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion	55 min
May 31, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Madison, Scott	64 min
May 31, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Issaquena	43 min
May 31, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Smith	66 min
May 31, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	59 min
May 31, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Yazoo	61 min
May 31, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	62 min
May 31, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton, Winston	60 min
May 31, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Lauderdale	55 min
May 31, 4:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Scott	116 min
May 31, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clay	50 min
May 31, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	33 min
May 31, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	34 min
May 31, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton	34 min
May 31, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore	60 min
May 31, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	59 min
May 31, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jones, Lauderdale	81 min
May 31, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	23 min
May 31, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lowndes	60 min
May 31, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Carroll	42 min
May 31, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw	60 min
May 31, 11:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Madison, Richland	53 min
May 31, 1:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	59 min
May 31, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Madison, Tensas	55 min
May 31, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Richland	45 min
May 31, 11:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Chicot	60 min

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.