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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Jackson, MS

May 13, 20225 counties in Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2022, 1:21 PM CDT for 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 69 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 13, 2022, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2022, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Adams County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Lincoln County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 321 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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 13, 1:08 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 1:08 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 4:51 AM CDT, 8 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 13, 11:20 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, May 13, 11:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 12:29 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 1:00 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 1:02 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 12, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	32 min
May 12, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	44 min
May 12, 7:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Simpson	23 min
May 12, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Simpson	30 min
May 12, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson, Smith	42 min
May 12, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lawrence	50 min
May 12, 8:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Marion	44 min
May 12, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Simpson	24 min
May 12, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	31 min
May 12, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	42 min
May 13, 2:40 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	Clarke, Clay, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis and 13 more	6 hr
May 13, 11:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds, Warren	55 min
May 13, 12:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	61 min
May 13, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Carroll, Grenada	60 min
May 13, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar	58 min
May 13, 1:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Yazoo	43 min
May 13, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower	29 min
May 13, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Washington	31 min
May 13, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	27 min
May 13, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sharkey	34 min
May 13, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	47 min
May 13, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Yazoo	25 min
May 13, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	41 min
May 13, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake	47 min
May 13, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	41 min
May 13, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	41 min
May 13, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Oktibbeha	40 min
May 13, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Concordia	19 min
May 13, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll	38 min
May 13, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Avoyelles	48 min
May 13, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	35 min
May 13, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	West Carroll	24 min
May 13, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	25 min
May 13, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	48 min
May 13, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	29 min
May 13, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	30 min
May 13, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Chicot	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2022 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2022

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.