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Freeze Watch 2, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this freeze watch at Mar 14, 2017, 3:48 AM CDT for 34 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Mar 15, 2017, 9:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2017, 3:48 AM CDT (08:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2017, 9:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2017, 3:25 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
All 34 counties
Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Mar 14, 12:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 12:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 3:48 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | JAN | Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay and 20 more | 30 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in Mississippi, 2017Every freeze watch in 2017
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.