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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Jackson, MS

July 13, 2026Issaquena County, Sharkey County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2026, 5:32 PM CDT for Issaquena County, Sharkey County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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: Jul 13, 2026, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2026, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Issaquena County, MS, Sharkey County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 350 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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 Jul 13, 3:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 3:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 13, 12:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 13, 12:11 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 4:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:25 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
Jul 12, 7:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	63 min
Jul 12, 7:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake	63 min
Jul 12, 7:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	62 min
Jul 12, 7:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Rankin	5 hr
Jul 12, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jefferson	57 min
Jul 12, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Yazoo	59 min
Jul 12, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Warren, Yazoo	40 min
Jul 12, 9:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Warren	3 hr
Jul 12, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Copiah, Rankin	55 min
Jul 12, 9:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Hinds, Madison	83 min
Jul 12, 9:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	81 min
Jul 12, 9:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	3 hr
Jul 12, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	58 min
Jul 13, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Sharkey	50 min
Jul 13, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Issaquena	50 min
Jul 13, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke	32 min
Jul 13, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	24 min
Jul 13, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Smith	42 min
Jul 12, 7:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Morehouse, West Carroll	3 hr
Jul 12, 7:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Richland	67 min
Jul 12, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison	67 min
Jul 12, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Chicot	60 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.