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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, MS

March 4, 2024Wilkinson County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this special weather statement at Mar 4, 2024, 1:21 PM CST for Wilkinson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 4, 2024, 1:21 PM CST (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2024, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 40

County Wilkinson County, MS

The radar

The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 1223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 3:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Yazoo	34 min
Mar 4, 5:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Yazoo	41 min
Mar 4, 12:44 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Catahoula	46 min
Mar 4, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	15 min
Mar 4, 2:47 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Morehouse	43 min
Mar 4, 2:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Ashley	41 min
Mar 4, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	33 min
Mar 4, 3:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	40 min
Mar 4, 3:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Chicot	23 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.