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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 383, NWS Jackson, MS

June 9, 2025Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2025, 12:55 AM CDT for Forrest County, Lamar 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: Jun 9, 2025, 12:55 AM CDT (05:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2025, 1:40 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Forrest County, MS, Lamar County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:57 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 2950 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 5.4

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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 Jun 9, 12:34 AM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 12:34 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 10:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jackson MS
1023 PM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025

MSZ064>066-073-074-090430-
Jones MS-Jefferson Davis MS-Covington MS-Lamar MS-Forrest MS-
1023 PM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHERN FORREST...SOUTHEASTERN
COVINGTON...NORTHERN LAMAR...SOUTHWESTERN JONES AND SOUTHEASTERN
JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTIES THROUGH 1130 PM CDT...

At 1023 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Sumrall, or 12 miles northwest of West Hattiesburg, moving east at 30
mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

This strong thunderstorm will be near...
  Hattiesburg, Rawls Springs, and Sanford around 1030 PM CDT.
  West Hattiesburg and Eastabuchie around 1040 PM CDT.
  Moselle around 1045 PM CDT.
  Petal around 1050 PM CDT.
  Macedonia around 1055 PM CDT.
  Sunrise around 1100 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3134 8964 3152 8963 3155 8915 3130 8915
TIME...MOT...LOC 0323Z 270DEG 25KT 3143 8955

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

EC

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 10:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jackson MS
1059 PM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025

MSZ066-090500-
Jones MS-
1059 PM CDT Sun Jun 8 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL JONES COUNTY THROUGH
MIDNIGHT CDT...

At 1059 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Moselle, or near Ellisville, moving northeast at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

This strong thunderstorm will be near...
  Laurel and Ellisville around 1105 PM CDT.
  Tuckers Crossing around 1110 PM CDT.
  Mill Creek around 1130 PM CDT.
  Sandersville around 1135 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3155 8940 3162 8940 3182 8899 3183 8894
      3158 8894 3144 8934
TIME...MOT...LOC 0359Z 243DEG 27KT 3156 8931

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

EC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Covington	67 min
Jun 8, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jones	61 min
Jun 8, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	47 min
Jun 9, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	49 min
Jun 9, 12:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Marion	2 hr
Jun 9, 1:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	66 min
Jun 9, 3:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison	41 min
Jun 9, 4:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake	42 min
Jun 9, 4:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Newton	41 min
Jun 9, 5:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Issaquena	41 min
Jun 9, 5:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Yazoo	23 min
Jun 9, 5:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison	38 min
Jun 9, 6:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Scott	3 hr
Jun 9, 11:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Leake	4 days
Jun 9, 2:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	23 min
Jun 9, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	25 min
Jun 9, 4:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lamar	24 min
Jun 9, 4:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	36 min
Jun 9, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lowndes	24 min
Jun 9, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lamar	24 min
Jun 9, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	32 min
Jun 9, 4:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	50 min
Jun 9, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Morehouse	42 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.