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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2015, 2:44 PM CDT for Covington County, Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi. It was in force for 14 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2015, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2015, 2:58 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 11, 10:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 10:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1047 AM CDT MON MAY 11 2015 .UPDATE...A LINE OF SHOWERS EXTENDS FROM NEAR GRENADA TO JUST WEST OF THE JACKSON METRO AREA DOWN INTO THE EAST CENTRAL PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA THIS MORNING AND IS SLOWLY WORKING ITS WAY EAST. THE SHOWERS ARE DISSIPATING AND ARE NO LONGER PRODUCING ANY LIGHTNING AS THE SHOWERS MOVE INTO DRIER AIR. FOR THE REST OF THE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS...EXPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP MAINLY SOUTH OF I-20 THIS AFTERNOON AS INDICATED BY HI-RES MODELS. A COUPLE OF THESE STORM MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AS THEY WILL HAVE 2000-3000 J/KG OF CAPE AND 25KTS OF DEEP LAYER SHEAR TO WORK WITH. EXPECT THE BULK OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO DISSIPATE QUICKLY BY SUNSET...BUT MORE ACTIVITY IS POSSIBLE DURING THE VERY EARLY MORNING HOURS ON TUESDAY AS ANOTHER SHORT WAVE MOVES INTO THE AREA. MADE SOME ADJUSTMENT TO THE HOURLY TEMPS AND WEATHER...BUT OTHER THAN THAT THE FORECAST IS ON TRACK./15/ SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ACROSS AR...NORTHWEST LA INTO EASTERN TEXAS EARLY THIS MORNING. THIS COMPLEX WAS MOVING SLOWLY AS A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WAS MAKING EASTWARD PROGRESS DIFFICULT. MOST HIGH RESOLUTION MODELS AND SPC SSEO INDICATE THAT THIS COMPLEX WILL GO THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING DIURNAL WEAKENING PROCESS MAINLY TO THE WEST OF OUR FORECAST AREA. SOME ACTIVITY MAY MAKE IT INTO SOUTHEAST AR AND NORTHEAST LA THIS MORNING BUT EVEN THAT IS UNCERTAIN. CONVECTIVE DEBRIS CLOUDINESS WILL SLOW DOWN WARMING A LITTLE ESPECIALLY WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BUT TEMPERATURES SHOULD CLIMB INTO THE LOWER-MID 80S WEST AND MID-UPPER 80S EAST. MODEL FORECASTS INDICATE THAT 2000-3000 J/KG OF SURFACE BASED CAPE WILL DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON WITH LOWER INSTABILITY EXPECTED FURTHER EAST DUE TO LOWER DEWPOINTS. THE AFOREMENTIONED HIGH RESOLUTION MODELS PIN POINT EAST-CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI FOR NEW STORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. THE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY AND 25-30KT OF DEEP LAYER SHEAR SUGGEST THAT A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION A FEW SEVERE STORMS IN THE HWO BUT REMOVE AN AREA NEAR THE ALABAMA BORDER DUE TO THE EXPECTED LOWER DEWPOINTS. A SURFACE BOUNDARY ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL SAG INTO THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT AND WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL STORMS OVERNIGHT. THE EVENING ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY WANE WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING BEFORE STORMS REDEVELOP LATER. THIS ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY. THE BOUNDARY WILL DROP SOUTH OF THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT ALLOWING SOME DRIER AIR TO REACH THE NORTHERN FORECAST AREA AND ENDING THE RISK OF STORMS. /SW/ .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY INTO MONDAY...THE FORECAST FOR THE MEDIUM RANGE/LONG TERM IS SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS. THE PATTERN SETUP IS FOR A PERSISTENT RIDGE TO OUR EAST (ACROSS THE E/SE CONUS) WITH FAIRLY DEEP SOUTHERLY FLOW BECOMING ESTABLISHED ACROSS THE CWA BY THU. THIS FLOW WILL RESULT IN PWS OF 1.6 TO 1.8 IN AND SUPPORTIVE OF DIURNAL CONVECTION. THE MAIN TROUGH AXIS WILL BE OVER THE ROCKIES WITH A FEW S/WV BRUSHING THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE RIDGE AND BRING SOME GLANCING BLOWS IN THE FORM OF AIDED LIFT. AT THIS POINT...TIMING SUCH FEATURES IS QUITE TOUGH BUT THE FIRST LOOKS TO BE AROUND THE AREA LATER ON THU INTO FRI. OVERALL...SCT TYPE POPS FITS THE SITUATION WITH ACTIVITY DIURNAL IN NATURE. AS FOR TEMPS...WED AND WED NGT WILL BE THE COOLEST (RELATIVELY SPEAKING) AS THE INFLUENCE OF THE SFC FRONT WILL STILL HAVE SOME IMPACTS. BY THU...LOOK FOR CONDITIONS TO WARM (BOTH LOWS/HIGHS) WITH A STEADY WARMING TREND INTO THE WEEKEND WITH UPPER 80S BECOMING MORE COMMON. A FEW MORE 90 DEGREE READINGS ALSO APPEAR POSSIBLE SUN-MON IF CLOUD COVER/PRECIP IS LESS. /CME/ && .AVIATION...LOW STRATUS HAS MIXED OUT FOR MOST PART WITH MID LEVEL CLOUDINESS PREVALENT THIS MORNING. THE FORECAST IS RATHER COMPLEX FOR THIS AFTERNOON AS A CONVECTIVE SYSTEM CONTINUES TO DECAY OVER THE FORECAST AREA. WITH DAYTIME HEATING...WE SHOULD SEE REGENERATION OF SHRA/TSRA...BUT IT IS LOOKING LIKE THIS COULD BE MAINLY CONFINED TO THE HBG/PIB AREA WITH LESSER CHANCES OVER OTHER SITES. FOR TONIGHT...THE A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND APPROACHING DISTURBANCE COULD ENHANCE SHRA/TSRA ACTIVITY...BUT MAIN CONCERN SHOULD SHIFT TO LIFR STRATUS/FOG POTENTIAL DURING THE PRE-DAWN/EARLY MORNING HOURS...ESPECIALLY IN THE HBG/PIB AREA AS HAS BEEN THE CASE. /EC/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... JACKSON 86 67 81 63 / 59 62 58 9 MERIDIAN 88 66 82 62 / 20 52 53 12 VICKSBURG 85 65 80 63 / 68 62 57 9 HATTIESBURG 89 70 85 66 / 18 36 64 36 NATCHEZ 85 66 80 65 / 65 58 58 20 GREENVILLE 83 62 78 61 / 56 39 22 8 GREENWOOD 84 63 79 60 / 54 42 26 8 && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. &&
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Special weather statement, May 11, 12:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1200 PM CDT MON MAY 11 2015
MSZ060-061-111730-
FRANKLIN MS-ADAMS MS-
1200 PM CDT MON MAY 11 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WESTERN FRANKLIN AND EAST
CENTRAL ADAMS COUNTIES UNTIL 1230 PM CDT...
AT 1159 AM CDT...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER GARDEN CITY...OR 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NATCHEZ...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WESTERN FRANKLIN
AND EAST CENTRAL ADAMS COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...ROXIE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HIGH WINDS CAN BRING DOWN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS RESULTING IN SERIOUS
INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN OUTDOORS
DURING SUCH STRONG WINDS...AND BE ESPECIALLY AWARE OF OLDER TREES.
&&
LAT...LON 3135 9115 3135 9121 3137 9122 3136 9126
3137 9126 3136 9128 3136 9130 3143 9134
3160 9107 3135 9092 3135 9098 3134 9099
3135 9102 3134 9103 3133 9106 3134 9107
3133 9107 3132 9112
TIME...MOT...LOC 1659Z 241DEG 29KT 3137 9116
17Local storm report, May 11, 1:51 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 8:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 41 min |
| May 11, 12:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Adams | 30 min |
| May 11, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin | 38 min |
| May 11, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 39 min |
| May 11, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 23 min |
| May 11, 2:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lawrence | 30 min |
| May 11, 2:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lawrence | 27 min |
| May 11, 2:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 31 min |
| May 11, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 31 min |
| May 11, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Covington | 43 min |
| May 11, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Marion | 44 min |
| May 11, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Forrest | 40 min |
| May 11, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lamar | 52 min |
| May 11, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jones | 44 min |
| May 11, 6:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Morehouse | 47 min |
| May 11, 7:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Morehouse, West Carroll | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.