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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2023, 1:05 PM CDT for Jasper County, Jones County, Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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
- Apr 15, 2023, 1:05 PM CDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2023, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Smith County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 9:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Adams | 66 min |
| Apr 15, 10:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 57 min |
| Apr 15, 11:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Copiah | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 11:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 64 min |
| Apr 15, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 12:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 12:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lamar | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Simpson, Smith | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jones | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 51 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.