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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, MS

March 3, 2016Washington County, Mississippi; Chicot County, Arkansas

NWS Jackson, MS issued this special weather statement at Mar 3, 2016, 3:29 AM CST for Washington County, Mississippi; Chicot County, Arkansas. 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: Mar 3, 2016, 3:29 AM CST (09:29 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2016, 4:15 AM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS

Counties Chicot County, AR, Washington County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 242 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 405 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Mar 2, 9:50 PM CST, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 9:50 PM CST, 5 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 2, 1:24 PM CST, 14 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 3, 2:48 AM CST, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 3, 3:29 AM CST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
329 AM CST THU MAR 3 2016

ARZ074-075-MSZ034-031015-
ASHLEY AR-CHICOT AR-WASHINGTON MS-
329 AM CST THU MAR 3 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CHICOT...NORTHEASTERN ASHLEY AND
CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTIES UNTIL 415 AM CST...

AT 329 AM CST...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR MONTROSE...OR 15 MILES WEST OF LAKE VILLAGE...MOVING EAST AT 60
MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LAKE VILLAGE...MCMILLAN CORNER AND CHICOT JUNCTION AROUND 345 AM
CST.
  AVON AND WAYSIDE AROUND 400 AM CST.
  ESTILL AROUND 410 AM CST.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE ARCOLA.

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 3339 9162 3339 9146 3345 9145 3348 9077
      3306 9093 3324 9170
TIME...MOT...LOC 0929Z 276DEG 51KT 3332 9155

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 8:37 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	23 min
Mar 3, 8:56 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	49 min
Mar 3, 11:23 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	37 min
Mar 3, 12:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	37 min
Mar 3, 12:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar	27 min
Mar 3, 12:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Newton	30 min
Mar 3, 12:54 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	21 min
Mar 3, 12:59 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	31 min
Mar 3, 1:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Covington, Jones	23 min
Mar 3, 1:20 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	10 min
Mar 3, 1:26 PM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	5 days
Mar 3, 1:37 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Newton	23 min
Mar 3, 1:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lamar	34 min
Mar 3, 2:20 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	25 min
Mar 3, 2:23 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar	22 min
Mar 3, 2:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	27 min
Mar 3, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington	51 min
Mar 3, 2:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	32 min
Mar 3, 2:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Warren	36 min
Mar 3, 3:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	23 min
Mar 3, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower	47 min
Mar 3, 3:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren	52 min
Mar 3, 3:38 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	37 min
Mar 3, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson	45 min
Mar 3, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes	26 min
Mar 3, 3:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Scott, Smith	43 min
Mar 3, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Issaquena, Madison, Warren, Yazoo	50 min
Mar 3, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	43 min
Mar 3, 4:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Issaquena, Warren	51 min
Mar 3, 4:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	46 min
Mar 3, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	34 min
Mar 3, 4:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Jones, Smith	48 min
Mar 3, 4:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	44 min
Mar 3, 5:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Simpson	17 min
Mar 3, 5:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Covington	26 min
Mar 3, 5:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jones	34 min
Mar 3, 5:51 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	39 min
Mar 3, 1:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	West Carroll	27 min
Mar 3, 2:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison	36 min
Mar 3, 2:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	West Carroll	26 min
Mar 3, 3:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	27 min
Mar 3, 3:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	West Carroll	26 min
Mar 3, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	49 min
Mar 3, 3:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	35 min
Mar 3, 2:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Ashley	42 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.