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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Jackson, MS

August 25, 202314 counties in Mississippi; 9 parishes in Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this red flag warning at Aug 25, 2023, 2:16 PM CDT for 14 counties in Mississippi; 9 parishes in Louisiana. It took effect at Aug 26, 2023, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 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
Aug 25, 2023, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 26, 2023, 9:00 AM CDT
Expired
Aug 26, 2023, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
All 23 counties

Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Marion County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Warren County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 2023-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2429 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 2023-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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 red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Aug 25, 12:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 12:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAttala, Holmes, Madison, Yazoo30 min
Aug 25, 2:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANLeake36 min
Aug 25, 3:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANJasper27 min
Aug 25, 3:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANYazoo25 min
Aug 25, 3:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANScott34 min
Aug 25, 3:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANScott37 min
Aug 25, 3:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANSharkey32 min
Aug 25, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANRankin36 min
Aug 25, 3:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANLeake36 min
Aug 25, 4:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANRankin27 min
Aug 25, 4:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANNewton31 min
Aug 25, 4:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANSimpson29 min
Aug 25, 4:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANRankin26 min
Aug 25, 4:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANFranklin37 min
Aug 25, 5:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANRankin30 min
Aug 25, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANIssaquena, Sharkey27 min
Aug 25, 5:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANLawrence28 min
Aug 25, 5:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANFranklin24 min
Aug 25, 6:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANNeshoba29 min
Aug 25, 6:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANCopiah36 min
Aug 25, 6:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANJefferson Davis35 min
Aug 25, 6:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANAdams27 min
Aug 25, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah55 min
Aug 25, 6:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANClarke35 min
Aug 25, 2:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANMadison25 min
Aug 25, 3:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANRichland35 min
Aug 25, 3:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANMadison28 min
Aug 25, 3:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANMadison31 min
Aug 25, 3:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANCaldwell43 min
Aug 25, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison, Richland28 min
Aug 25, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCatahoula, Franklin41 min
Aug 25, 4:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANWest Carroll47 min
Aug 25, 4:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANEast Carroll38 min

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.