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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Jackson, MS

December 28, 2024Chicot County, Arkansas

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 28, 2024, 10:18 AM CST for Chicot County, Arkansas. It was in force for 42 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: Dec 28, 2024, 10:18 AM CST (16:18 UTC)
Expired: Dec 28, 2024, 11:00 AM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Chicot County, AR

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 975 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 Dec 28, 8:03 AM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 8:03 AM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 28, 8:10 AM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 28, 8:15 AM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 28, 8:17 AM CST, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Dec 28, 8:40 AM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 28, 10:01 AM CST, 17 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jackson MS
1001 AM CST Sat Dec 28 2024

MSZ064>066-073-281630-
Jones MS-Jefferson Davis MS-Covington MS-Lamar MS-
1001 AM CST Sat Dec 28 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT EASTERN COVINGTON...NORTHWESTERN
LAMAR...WEST CENTRAL JONES AND EASTERN JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTIES
THROUGH 1030 AM CST...

At 1000 AM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Sumrall, or 13 miles northwest of West Hattiesburg, moving northeast
at 45 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

This strong thunderstorm will be near...
  Seminary and Sanford around 1005 AM CST.
  Collins around 1010 AM CST.
  Hebron around 1020 AM CST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 300 PM CST for south central
and southeastern Mississippi.

&&

LAT...LON 3141 8965 3177 8951 3166 8925 3143 8941
      3143 8945 3138 8945 3135 8947
TIME...MOT...LOC 1600Z 205DEG 38KT 3145 8954

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 27, 9:11 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 41 more	12 hr
Dec 28, 7:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson	41 min
Dec 28, 8:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Marion	50 min
Dec 28, 8:15 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Claiborne	60 min
Dec 28, 8:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lincoln	28 min
Dec 28, 8:40 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lawrence	35 min
Dec 28, 10:01 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Covington	29 min
Dec 28, 10:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Bolivar	65 min
Dec 28, 12:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	56 min
Dec 28, 2:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	52 min
Dec 28, 3:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	53 min
Dec 28, 3:47 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	58 min
Dec 28, 4:16 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Washington	59 min
Dec 28, 4:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Washington, Yazoo	63 min
Dec 28, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	77 min
Dec 28, 5:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Warren	61 min
Dec 28, 5:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	59 min
Dec 28, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren	65 min
Dec 28, 5:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower, Washington and 1 more	61 min
Dec 28, 5:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Simpson and 1 more	79 min
Dec 28, 5:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds, Warren	49 min
Dec 28, 2:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	64 min
Dec 28, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Morehouse, West Carroll	62 min
Dec 28, 3:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Richland	65 min
Dec 28, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	52 min
Dec 28, 3:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Richland	62 min
Dec 28, 3:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Madison, Richland	34 min
Dec 28, 4:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, Richland	35 min
Dec 28, 4:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	55 min
Dec 28, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin, Tensas	49 min
Dec 28, 4:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	60 min
Dec 28, 4:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	46 min
Dec 28, 9:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	31 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.