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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Jackson, MS

May 23, 2025Forrest County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2025, 7:35 PM CDT for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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 23, 2025, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2025, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Forrest County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 1842 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 23, 6:38 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 6:38 PM CDT, 57 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 23, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	50 min
May 23, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	43 min
May 23, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Adams	52 min
May 23, 8:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lincoln	49 min
May 24, 5:43 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	JAN	Issaquena, Washington	44 days
May 24, 7:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar	34 min
May 24, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	50 min
May 24, 1:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	46 min
May 24, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	69 min
May 24, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sunflower, Washington	47 min
May 24, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Winston	50 min
May 24, 3:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Carroll, Grenada	45 min
May 24, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Montgomery and 1 more	39 min
May 24, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	62 min
May 24, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	59 min
May 24, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	38 min
May 24, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	21 min
May 24, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Holmes, Montgomery, Webster	53 min
May 24, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds, Madison	57 min
May 24, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	54 min
May 24, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds, Warren	45 min
May 24, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Claiborne, Jefferson	82 min
May 24, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Clay, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Webster, Winston	62 min
May 24, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	22 min
May 24, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott, Simpson	47 min
May 24, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton, Scott, Smith	57 min
May 24, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Simpson	44 min
May 24, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Newton	72 min
May 24, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lowndes	68 min
May 24, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	52 min
May 24, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson and 1 more	46 min
May 24, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lawrence, Smith	67 min
May 24, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	45 min
May 24, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion	65 min
May 24, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	49 min
May 23, 9:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Catahoula	48 min
May 24, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	58 min
May 24, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, West Carroll	55 min
May 24, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison, Richland, West Carroll	57 min
May 24, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Madison, Richland	41 min
May 24, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Catahoula	40 min
May 24, 1:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	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.