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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Jackson, MS

August 15, 2024Claiborne County, Jefferson County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2024, 5:23 PM CDT for Claiborne County, Jefferson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 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
Aug 15, 2024, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2024, 5:49 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Claiborne County, MS, Jefferson County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 2024-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2760 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 2024-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 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
2760 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 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 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 Aug 14, 6:36 PM CDT, 22 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 6:36 PM CDT, 22 hours 47 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 3:31 AM CDTExcessive Heat WarningJANAdams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 31 more64 hr
Aug 15, 1:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANJefferson Davis26 min
Aug 15, 1:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANYazoo59 min
Aug 15, 1:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANCovington, Jefferson Davis66 min
Aug 15, 1:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANLincoln62 min
Aug 15, 2:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANMadison53 min
Aug 15, 2:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANFranklin49 min
Aug 15, 2:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANMarion26 min
Aug 15, 3:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANMadison33 min
Aug 15, 3:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANSimpson37 min
Aug 15, 4:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANRankin28 min
Aug 15, 4:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANRankin42 min
Aug 15, 5:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANClaiborne33 min
Aug 15, 5:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANWashington27 min
Aug 15, 4:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANTensas34 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.