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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2025, 1:30 AM CDT for Bolivar County, Sunflower 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 18, 2025, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2025, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bolivar County, MS, Sunflower County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 2601 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
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 May 17, 7:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 7:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
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Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Jackson MS
1115 PM CDT Sat May 17 2025
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1200 PM Flash Flood 1 NNW Jackson 32.31N 90.19W
05/17/2025 Hinds MS Public
Numerous roads and streets flooded as
reported by Jackson PD.
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OAJThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 59 min |
| May 17, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Yazoo | 59 min |
| May 18, 2:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Bolivar, Leflore, Sunflower | 54 min |
| May 18, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 44 min |
| May 18, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Montgomery, Sunflower | 66 min |
| May 18, 2:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Leflore, Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 18, 3:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Montgomery | 20 min |
| May 18, 3:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster | 52 min |
| May 18, 4:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Clay | 52 min |
| May 18, 4:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Lowndes | 35 min |
| May 18, 8:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 40 min |
| May 18, 9:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Leflore | 26 hr |
| May 18, 9:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 42 min |
| May 18, 10:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay | 49 min |
| May 18, 11:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 34 min |
| May 18, 3:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | West Carroll | 25 min |
| May 18, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | JAN | Morehouse | 29 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.