Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2026

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 396, NWS Jackson, MS

September 21, 2026Forrest County, Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2026, 5:39 PM CDT for Forrest County, Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 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: Sep 21, 2026, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Sep 21, 2026, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 51 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 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 10.7 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: 1035 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1338 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 21, 1:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Winston	16 min
Sep 21, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	27 min
Sep 21, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Scott	33 min
Sep 21, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Winston	25 min
Sep 21, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	53 min
Sep 21, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	34 min
Sep 21, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw, Winston	27 min
Sep 21, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Neshoba	30 min
Sep 21, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	41 min
Sep 21, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	39 min
Sep 21, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	25 min
Sep 21, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	44 min
Sep 21, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Noxubee	38 min
Sep 21, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	23 min
Sep 21, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott	47 min
Sep 21, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lauderdale	42 min
Sep 21, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jasper	25 min
Sep 21, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	51 min
Sep 21, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala	34 min
Sep 21, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	49 min
Sep 21, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	60 min
Sep 21, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	59 min
Sep 21, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Jones	40 min
Sep 21, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	37 min
Sep 21, 5:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Marion	38 min
Sep 21, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey	45 min
Sep 21, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Lamar	44 min
Sep 21, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	56 min
Sep 21, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Montgomery	51 min
Sep 21, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes, Yazoo	63 min
Sep 21, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Lowndes	63 min
Sep 21, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	55 min
Sep 21, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Webster	54 min
Sep 21, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jones	49 min
Sep 21, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	55 min
Sep 21, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Richland	44 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.