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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Jackson, MS

May 24, 2018Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2018, 5:17 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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 24, 2018, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2018, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lauderdale County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 637 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 24, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 5:03 AM CDT, 12 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 4:43 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 4:56 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 4:58 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	44 min
May 23, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	27 min
May 23, 7:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Choctaw, Webster	113 min
May 23, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	52 min
May 23, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	47 min
May 23, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	42 min
May 23, 7:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	85 min
May 23, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	43 min
May 23, 8:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	30 min
May 23, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds	33 min
May 23, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	31 min
May 23, 9:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	41 min
May 24, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lowndes	32 min
May 24, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	34 min
May 24, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	32 min
May 24, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	40 min
May 24, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Covington	27 min
May 24, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Simpson	38 min
May 24, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Grenada, Montgomery	26 min
May 23, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin, Madison, Richland	32 min
May 23, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Tensas	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2018 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2018

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.