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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Jackson, MS

April 27, 2024Ashley County, Arkansas

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2024, 12:06 AM CDT for Ashley County, Arkansas. It was in force for 54 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 27, 2024, 12:06 AM CDT (05:06 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Ashley County, AR

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:09 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2024-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1541 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2024-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1541 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1026 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
7.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 10:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANAshley37 min
Apr 26, 10:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANAshley33 min
Apr 26, 11:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANChicot31 min
Apr 26, 11:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANAshley44 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.