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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Jackson, MS

March 14, 2019Ashley County, Arkansas

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2019, 6:11 AM CDT for Ashley 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2019, 6:11 AM CDT (11:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2019, 6:57 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Ashley County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 14, 5:28 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -323 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 Mar 14, 4:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 4:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 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
Mar 13, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	36 min
Mar 13, 8:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar	45 min
Mar 13, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	37 min
Mar 14, 7:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Issaquena	32 min
Mar 14, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala	28 min
Mar 14, 11:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw	50 min
Mar 14, 12:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clay, Oktibbeha	39 min
Mar 14, 12:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala	52 min
Mar 14, 12:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw	23 min
Mar 14, 12:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw	25 min
Mar 14, 12:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Clay, Oktibbeha	49 min
Mar 14, 1:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston	58 min
Mar 14, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lincoln	23 min
Mar 14, 1:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	36 min
Mar 14, 1:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Oktibbeha	39 min
Mar 14, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	42 min
Mar 14, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake	25 min
Mar 14, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	36 min
Mar 14, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	39 min
Mar 14, 2:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith	44 min
Mar 14, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	32 min
Mar 14, 2:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Newton, Scott	36 min
Mar 14, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton, Scott	53 min
Mar 14, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Newton, Smith	54 min
Mar 14, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	41 min
Mar 14, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	44 min
Mar 14, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	49 min
Mar 14, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	44 min
Mar 14, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	31 min
Mar 13, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Chicot	34 min
Mar 13, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Ashley	33 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.