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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 272, NWS Jackson, MS

May 17, 2025Hinds County, Warren County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT for Hinds County, Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 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 17, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2025, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hinds County, MS, Warren County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 53 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: 1263 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 7.1

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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 May 17, 11:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 11:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 17, 8:16 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jackson MS
816 AM CDT Sat May 17 2025

MSZ049-171400-
Rankin MS-
816 AM CDT Sat May 17 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN RANKIN COUNTY
THROUGH 900 AM CDT...

At 816 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Pelahatchie, or near Brandon, moving southeast at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

This strong thunderstorm will be near...
  Jackson and Pelahatchie around 820 AM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3234 9005 3244 8986 3232 8973 3222 8973
      3208 9000
TIME...MOT...LOC 1316Z 328DEG 18KT 3231 8990

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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Special weather statement, May 17, 12:48 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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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 17, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	57 min
May 17, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	55 min
May 17, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower	48 min
May 17, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery	44 min
May 17, 2:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Grenada	37 min
May 17, 3:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clay, Webster	43 min
May 17, 3:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha	27 min
May 17, 4:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw, Lowndes, Oktibbeha	38 min
May 17, 5:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha	58 min
May 17, 6:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	57 min
May 17, 6:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	67 min
May 17, 8:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	44 min
May 17, 8:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	45 min
May 17, 9:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	44 min
May 17, 11:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	94 min
May 17, 12:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	42 min
May 17, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	62 min
May 17, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	23 min
May 17, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	42 min
May 17, 3:13 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Yazoo	4 days
May 17, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	48 min
May 17, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	37 min
May 17, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	62 min
May 17, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	64 min
May 17, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	48 min
May 17, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	West Carroll	40 min
May 17, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	West Carroll	43 min
May 17, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	58 min
May 17, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	57 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.