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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Jackson, MS

April 27, 2025Lauderdale County, Newton County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2025, 6:49 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Newton 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 27, 2025, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2025, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Lauderdale County, MS, Newton County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 215 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2025-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2025-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 5:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANGrenada57 min
Apr 27, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChoctaw, Clay, Oktibbeha, Webster40 min
Apr 27, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll, Grenada, Montgomery53 min
Apr 27, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLeake, Neshoba, Newton52 min
Apr 27, 6:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANMontgomery65 min
Apr 27, 12:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANAshley34 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.