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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 33
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 3, 2018, 8:13 PM CDT for 22 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2018, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2018, 11:41 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 22 counties
Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Covington County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Holmes, Webster | 71 min |
| Apr 3, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Oktibbeha, Winston | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Covington, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln and 3 more | 79 min |
| Apr 3, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee | 69 min |
| Apr 3, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton, Scott | 78 min |
| Apr 3, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Jones | 59 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 11:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Choctaw and 21 more | 66 min |
| Apr 4, 1:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa and 4 more | 105 min |
| Apr 3, 7:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 35 more | 92 min |
| Apr 3, 11:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amite, Clarke, Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion and 5 more | 57 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.