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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Jackson, MS

May 26, 2026Jasper County, Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2026, 2:26 PM CDT for Jasper County, Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 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: May 26, 2026, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2026, 3:02 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 955 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 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 May 26, 2:01 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:01 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 2:19 PM CDT, 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
May 25, 8:25 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Clarke	37 hr
May 26, 9:42 AM CDT	Flood Watch	JAN	Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jones, Lamar	11 hr
May 26, 11:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	Noxubee	10 hr
May 26, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jones	26 min
May 26, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jasper	25 min
May 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	35 min
May 26, 6:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2026 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2026

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.