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Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Jackson, MS

October 30, 202332 counties in Mississippi; Concordia Parish, Louisiana

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2023-10-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2023-10-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 30, 2:53 PM CDTFreeze WatchJANAdams, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 17 more42 hr
Oct 30, 2:53 PM CDTFreeze WarningJANAdams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 38 more42 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Mississippi, 2023Red Flag Warnings in Louisiana, 2023Every red flag warning in 2023

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.