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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 385, NWS Jackson, MS

June 16, 2023Lowndes County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2023, 6:24 PM CDT for Lowndes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 16, 2023, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2023, 6:53 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lowndes County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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
Jun 16, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 Jun 16, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 2:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 4:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 5:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:36 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:17 PM CDT, 7 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
Jun 16, 3:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	85 min
Jun 16, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	71 min
Jun 16, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds, Issaquena, Warren	66 min
Jun 16, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	53 min
Jun 16, 4:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Yazoo	77 min
Jun 16, 4:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds, Warren	31 min
Jun 16, 4:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	71 min
Jun 16, 4:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo	54 min
Jun 16, 5:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	JAN	Jasper, Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Scott and 1 more	78 min
Jun 16, 5:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	JAN	Covington, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Smith	73 min
Jun 16, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	63 min
Jun 16, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Clarke, Kemper, Lauderdale	57 min
Jun 16, 8:36 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	Adams, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lawrence and 3 more	11 hr
Jun 16, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Washington	38 min
Jun 16, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	46 min
Jun 16, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Clay, Lowndes	53 min
Jun 16, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Webster	43 min
Jun 16, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	43 min
Jun 16, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lowndes	28 min
Jun 16, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	42 min
Jun 16, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, Tensas and 1 more	79 min
Jun 16, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Tensas	24 min
Jun 16, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Chicot	25 min

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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.