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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, MS

June 17, 2025Clay County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this special weather statement at Jun 17, 2025, 5:21 PM CDT for Clay 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2025, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2025, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Hail
0.50 in
Wind
40

County Clay County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2025-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 133 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2025-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 16, 6:17 PM CDT, 23 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:17 PM CDT, 23 hours 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 10:34 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningJANAttala, Holmes21 days
Jun 17, 11:14 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANClaiborne46 min
Jun 17, 12:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANJasper38 min
Jun 17, 12:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANClarke, Lauderdale52 min
Jun 17, 12:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANJefferson Davis52 min
Jun 17, 1:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANJasper42 min
Jun 17, 1:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANJasper23 min
Jun 17, 1:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANScott43 min
Jun 17, 2:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANRankin42 min
Jun 17, 2:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANRankin48 min
Jun 17, 2:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANForrest47 min
Jun 17, 4:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANNewton28 min
Jun 17, 4:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANCopiah44 min
Jun 17, 4:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANNewton37 min
Jun 17, 4:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANCopiah36 min
Jun 17, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah44 min
Jun 17, 5:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANIssaquena43 min
Jun 17, 5:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANLincoln42 min
Jun 17, 5:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANYazoo25 min
Jun 17, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah, Franklin, Lincoln48 min
Jun 17, 5:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANClaiborne32 min
Jun 17, 6:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANWarren35 min
Jun 17, 6:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJANCopiah, Lincoln2 hr
Jun 17, 6:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANLawrence25 min
Jun 17, 6:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANClaiborne52 min
Jun 17, 8:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJANEast Carroll, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll4 hr
Jun 17, 9:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANMorehouse39 min
Jun 17, 10:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANWest Carroll45 min
Jun 17, 4:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementJANCatahoula31 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.