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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Jackson, MS

May 2, 20255 counties in Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2025, 6:17 PM CDT for 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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: May 2, 2025, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Webster County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 2, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 257 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: 1260 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 8:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lawrence	45 min
May 2, 10:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar	37 min
May 2, 10:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Montgomery	34 min
May 2, 11:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	32 min
May 2, 12:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Sharkey	27 min
May 2, 12:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Washington	49 min
May 2, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Washington	24 min
May 2, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington	27 min
May 2, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington	67 min
May 2, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	50 min
May 2, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Oktibbeha	34 min
May 2, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha	54 min
May 2, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Humphreys	45 min
May 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	46 min
May 2, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston	62 min
May 2, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Grenada	67 min
May 2, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba, Winston	63 min
May 2, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren	61 min
May 2, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	31 min
May 2, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	25 min
May 2, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Webster	56 min
May 2, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee, Winston	70 min
May 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	32 min
May 2, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	51 min
May 2, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Webster	46 min
May 2, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Madison, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	53 min
May 2, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Claiborne	64 min
May 2, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	33 min
May 2, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	34 min
May 2, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake	32 min
May 2, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba, Scott	55 min
May 2, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Holmes	46 min
May 2, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	38 min
May 2, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake	38 min
May 2, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Madison	34 min
May 2, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	62 min
May 2, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	25 min
May 2, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala, Choctaw, Montgomery	53 min
May 2, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Adams	55 min
May 2, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Webster	52 min
May 1, 7:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Morehouse	65 min
May 1, 7:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Morehouse	57 min
May 1, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, West Carroll	62 min
May 1, 8:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	67 min
May 1, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	49 min
May 1, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	East Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	65 min
May 1, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Morehouse	61 min
May 1, 11:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, Richland	56 min
May 1, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	51 min
May 2, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Franklin	17 days
May 2, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	West Carroll	40 min
May 2, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	62 min
May 2, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison	53 min
May 2, 3:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin, Richland	40 min
May 2, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	44 min
May 2, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, West Carroll	24 min
May 1, 7:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Ashley	53 min
May 2, 11:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Ashley	32 min
May 2, 12:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Chicot	42 min
May 2, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Ashley	62 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.