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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, MS

March 25, 2021Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this special weather statement at Mar 25, 2021, 5:03 PM CDT for Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 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: Mar 25, 2021, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS

County Jones County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 1775 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 352 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 473 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.6
Supercell composite: 21.9

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 25, 3:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 3:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 25, 4:19 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 4:23 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 25, 4:29 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 25, 4:30 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 4:32 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 5:03 PM CDT, 0 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 25, 12:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	43 min
Mar 25, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	39 min
Mar 25, 1:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	32 min
Mar 25, 2:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	24 min
Mar 25, 2:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw	36 min
Mar 25, 3:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clay	43 min
Mar 25, 3:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Simpson, Smith	38 min
Mar 25, 3:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	32 min
Mar 25, 3:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton, Scott	27 min
Mar 25, 4:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw	31 min
Mar 25, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Oktibbeha, Webster	36 min
Mar 25, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Winston	38 min
Mar 25, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	34 min
Mar 25, 5:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	30 min
Mar 25, 5:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Neshoba	47 min
Mar 25, 6:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Noxubee	25 min
Mar 25, 7:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Lawrence	63 hr
Mar 25, 8:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala	36 min
Mar 25, 9:01 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Neshoba	7 days
Mar 25, 9:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	13 days
Mar 25, 9:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Clarke	4 days
Mar 25, 9:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lowndes	26 min
Mar 25, 9:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Winston	49 min
Mar 25, 9:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Noxubee	42 min
Mar 25, 9:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	28 min
Mar 25, 11:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	12 days
Mar 25, 11:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Washington	13 days
Mar 25, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba, Scott	52 min
Mar 25, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Winston	28 min
Mar 25, 1:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith	57 min
Mar 25, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	30 min
Mar 25, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Winston	24 min
Mar 25, 1:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Scott, Simpson, Smith	94 min
Mar 25, 1:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	17 min
Mar 25, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	27 min
Mar 25, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton	81 min
Mar 25, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	25 min
Mar 25, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale, Newton	61 min
Mar 25, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	29 min
Mar 25, 3:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper	24 min
Mar 25, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	36 min
Mar 25, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion	44 min
Mar 25, 3:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	27 min
Mar 25, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Rankin, Simpson, Smith	65 min
Mar 25, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Smith	15 min
Mar 25, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Newton	37 min
Mar 25, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Marion	28 min
Mar 25, 5:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Leake	3 days
Mar 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	45 min
Mar 25, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	63 min
Mar 25, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	13 min
Mar 24, 9:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Concordia	35 min
Mar 24, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	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.