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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, MS

August 5, 2016Jasper County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 4:54 PM CDT for Jasper County, Mississippi. It was in force for 21 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: Aug 5, 2016, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS

County Jasper County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 535 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1280 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

949 
WWUS84 KJAN 052154
SPSJAN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
454 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016
 
MSZ057-052215-
JASPER MS-
454 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY UNTIL
515 PM CDT...

AT 454 PM CDT...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR HEIDELBERG...OR 9 MILES EAST OF STRINGER...MOVING SOUTH AT 15
MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HEIDELBERG...MOSS AND STAFFORD SPRINGS. 

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 3182 8895 3181 8922 3196 8922 3198 8892
TIME...MOT...LOC 2154Z 352DEG 11KT 3190 8911 

$$

CME

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	27 min
Aug 5, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Humphreys	64 min
Aug 5, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	20 min
Aug 5, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Sharkey	30 min
Aug 5, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	14 min
Aug 5, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Neshoba	36 min
Aug 5, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Grenada	17 min
Aug 5, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Webster	46 min
Aug 5, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison	24 min
Aug 5, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Grenada	21 min
Aug 5, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery	32 min
Aug 5, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	40 min
Aug 5, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	32 min
Aug 5, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw	25 min
Aug 5, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	32 min
Aug 5, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Simpson	18 min
Aug 5, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	30 min
Aug 5, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala	27 min
Aug 5, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Carroll	34 min
Aug 5, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Holmes	46 min
Aug 5, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	29 min
Aug 5, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	33 min
Aug 5, 5:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Simpson	28 min
Aug 5, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lincoln	31 min
Aug 5, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	27 min
Aug 5, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lawrence	26 min
Aug 5, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	29 min
Aug 5, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll	39 min
Aug 5, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	26 min
Aug 5, 5:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	23 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.