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Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this red flag warning at Oct 30, 2023, 2:08 PM CDT for 32 counties in Mississippi; Concordia Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Oct 31, 2023, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 2023, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 31, 2023, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
All 33 counties
Concordia Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2:53 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 17 more | 42 hr |
| Oct 30, 2:53 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | JAN | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 38 more | 42 hr |
Nearby
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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.