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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2024, 11:19 AM CDT for Grenada County, Leflore County, Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 56 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 8, 2024, 11:19 AM CDT (16:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2024, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Grenada County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Sunflower County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3204 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 8, 10:21 AM CDT, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 10:21 AM CDT, 58 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 8:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jackson MS
839 AM CDT Mon Apr 8 2024
LAZ016-023-081415-
Madison LA-Franklin LA-
839 AM CDT Mon Apr 8 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WEST CENTRAL MADISON AND
NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN PARISHES THROUGH 915 AM CDT...
At 839 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Crowville, or 11 miles northeast of Winnsboro, moving northeast at 30
mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and penny size 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...
Bakers around 845 AM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3243 9134 3225 9135 3218 9155 3228 9165
TIME...MOT...LOC 1339Z 238DEG 26KT 3223 9154
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
CEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 9:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Bolivar | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 8:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 21 days |
| Apr 8, 9:56 AM CDT | Flood Watch | JAN | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 41 more | 57 hr |
| Apr 8, 9:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 9 days |
| Apr 8, 11:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Yazoo | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 12:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake, Madison | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 12:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Grenada | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 12:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Grenada | 52 min |
| Apr 8, 1:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Bolivar | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 8:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Franklin | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 3:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Tensas | 37 min |
| Apr 7, 7:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Ashley | 26 min |
| Apr 7, 8:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Ashley | 37 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.