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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 488, NWS Jackson, MS

October 19, 2025Rankin County, Scott County, Smith County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 19, 2025, 2:09 AM CDT for Rankin County, Scott County, Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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: Oct 19, 2025, 2:09 AM CDT (07:09 UTC)
Expired: Oct 19, 2025, 2:33 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Smith County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 18, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 40 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: 743 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1174 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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 Oct 19, 12:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 12:52 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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In the hours 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
Oct 18, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey, Washington	64 min
Oct 18, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	43 min
Oct 18, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	75 min
Oct 18, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Leflore	42 min
Oct 18, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes	62 min
Oct 18, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes, Madison, Yazoo	78 min
Oct 18, 9:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes, Yazoo	29 min
Oct 18, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada, Montgomery, Webster	39 min
Oct 18, 10:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw	58 min
Oct 18, 10:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Yazoo	41 min
Oct 18, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Choctaw, Leake, Neshoba, Winston	67 min
Oct 18, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha	46 min
Oct 18, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Neshoba, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston	53 min
Oct 18, 11:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	47 min
Oct 18, 11:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren, Yazoo	36 min
Oct 19, 12:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Noxubee	63 min
Oct 19, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Adams	46 min
Oct 18, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	36 min
Oct 18, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	27 min
Oct 18, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland, West Carroll	41 min
Oct 18, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll, Morehouse, West Carroll	39 min
Oct 18, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	48 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.