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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, MS

June 28, 2013Clarke County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2013, 2:49 PM CDT for Clarke County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 2013, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2013, 3:20 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS

County Clarke County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.

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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: 2852 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 Jun 28, 10:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 10:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 4:56 AM CDT, 9 hours 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

MSZ058-282020-
CLARKE MS-
249 PM CDT FRI JUN 28 2013

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
249 PM CDT FRI JUN 28 2013

A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY TO
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED FROM THE CLARKE
COUNTY...JASPER COUNTY BORDER TO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF QUITMAN...TO
SYKES AT 248 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

PEOPLE IN CLARKE COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.

LAT...LON 3200 8845 3190 8848 3205 8892 3222 8891
      3222 8889 3217 8843
TIME...MOT...LOC 1948Z 297DEG 15KT 3209 8869

JC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar	39 min
Jun 27, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington	53 min
Jun 27, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	42 min
Jun 28, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	29 min
Jun 28, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	51 min
Jun 28, 4:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Grenada	30 min
Jun 28, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Grenada	30 min
Jun 28, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	29 min
Jun 28, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leflore	44 min
Jun 28, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Sunflower	44 min
Jun 28, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	66 min
Jun 28, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	56 min
Jun 28, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery, Webster	48 min
Jun 28, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	53 min
Jun 28, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	49 min
Jun 28, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Carroll	61 min
Jun 28, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington	39 min
Jun 28, 6:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	30 min
Jun 28, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Carroll	47 min
Jun 28, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Holmes	45 min
Jun 28, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala	43 min
Jun 28, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	33 min
Jun 28, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	41 min
Jun 28, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Sharkey, Yazoo	47 min
Jun 28, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	41 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.