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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Jackson, MS

March 7, 2026Issaquena County, Sharkey County, Mississippi; East Carroll Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2026, 12:03 PM CST for Issaquena County, Sharkey County, Mississippi; East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 57 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 7, 2026, 12:03 PM CST (18:03 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2026, 1:00 PM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties East Carroll Parish, LA, Issaquena County, MS, Sharkey County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 855 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 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 7, 11:58 AM CST, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 11:58 AM CST, 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 7, 11:56 AM CST, 7 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 6, 6:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Claiborne	57 min
Mar 6, 6:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	42 min
Mar 6, 7:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	42 min
Mar 6, 7:45 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Sharkey, Yazoo	45 min
Mar 6, 8:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey, Yazoo	52 min
Mar 6, 8:55 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower	50 min
Mar 7, 12:57 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	48 min
Mar 7, 12:59 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	46 min
Mar 7, 1:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	42 min
Mar 7, 2:05 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Issaquena	55 min
Mar 7, 2:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Washington	11 min
Mar 7, 2:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah	64 min
Mar 7, 3:13 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	47 min
Mar 7, 3:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	75 min
Mar 7, 3:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds, Madison, Rankin	68 min
Mar 7, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	22 min
Mar 7, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	45 min
Mar 7, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott, Smith	64 min
Mar 7, 4:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	41 min
Mar 7, 4:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake, Neshoba	49 min
Mar 7, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	53 min
Mar 7, 5:25 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	2 hr
Mar 7, 5:32 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke, Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton	58 min
Mar 6, 6:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll	53 min
Mar 7, 11:56 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll	49 min
Mar 7, 12:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison	52 min
Mar 7, 1:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	42 min
Mar 7, 1:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Richland	46 min
Mar 7, 2:56 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Richland	49 min
Mar 7, 3:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Tensas	67 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.