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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Jackson, MS

March 8, 2025Forrest County, Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2025, 10:12 PM CST for Forrest County, Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 63 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 8, 2025, 10:12 PM CST (04:12 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2025, 11:15 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Forrest County, MS, Jones County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 513 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 8, 9:30 PM CST, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 9:30 PM CST, 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 8:33 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jackson MS
833 PM CST Sat Mar 8 2025

MSZ061>063-090330-
Lawrence MS-Lincoln MS-Franklin MS-
833 PM CST Sat Mar 8 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHERN LINCOLN...LAWRENCE AND
SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES THROUGH 930 PM CST...

At 833 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Center Point, or 13 miles northwest of Mccomb, moving east at 40 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...
  Bogue Chitto, West Lincoln, and Enterprise around 840 PM CST.
  Brookhaven around 845 PM CST.
  East Lincoln and Ruth around 850 PM CST.
  Monticello around 905 PM CST.
  Robinwood and Wanilla around 910 PM CST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3135 9078 3149 9075 3167 9006 3146 9001
      3135 9037
TIME...MOT...LOC 0233Z 249DEG 36KT 3142 9059

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

CR

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 9:49 PM CST, 23 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 8, 8:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	57 min
Mar 8, 8:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln	48 min
Mar 8, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Marion	52 min
Mar 8, 11:25 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison	65 min
Mar 9, 4:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lincoln	56 min
Mar 9, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln	53 min
Mar 9, 5:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	56 min
Mar 9, 6:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	66 min
Mar 9, 8:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds	29 min
Mar 9, 9:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	42 min
Mar 9, 9:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	47 min
Mar 9, 9:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence	32 min
Mar 9, 10:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jasper	47 min
Mar 9, 11:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	41 min
Mar 9, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	40 min
Mar 8, 9:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Tensas	41 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.