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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Jackson, MS

March 4, 2025Morehouse Parish, Louisiana; Ashley County, Arkansas

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2025, 11:11 AM CST for Morehouse Parish, Louisiana; Ashley County, Arkansas. It was in force for 94 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: Mar 4, 2025, 11:11 AM CST (17:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2025, 12:45 PM CST
In force: 94 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Ashley County, AR, Morehouse Parish, LA

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 4, 8:13 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Mar 4, 10:15 AM CST, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 10:15 AM CST, 56 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
Mar 4, 12:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington	81 min
Mar 4, 1:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	81 min
Mar 4, 1:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Carroll, Humphreys, Leflore, Sharkey, Sunflower	78 min
Mar 4, 1:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Warren	76 min
Mar 4, 1:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Yazoo	79 min
Mar 4, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	19 min
Mar 4, 2:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Lincoln	73 min
Mar 4, 2:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	75 min
Mar 4, 3:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson	70 min
Mar 4, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Lincoln	44 min
Mar 4, 3:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott, Smith	69 min
Mar 4, 4:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion	37 min
Mar 4, 4:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson	68 min
Mar 4, 4:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	77 min
Mar 4, 4:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	63 min
Mar 4, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	38 min
Mar 4, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	75 min
Mar 4, 5:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	70 min
Mar 4, 5:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	68 min
Mar 4, 5:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale, Newton	77 min
Mar 4, 12:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Richland	72 min
Mar 4, 12:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	81 min
Mar 4, 12:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	71 min
Mar 4, 12:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Tensas	80 min

Nearby

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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.