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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2026, 6:29 PM CDT for Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas. It was in force for 61 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 15, 2026, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2026, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 15, 4:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 4:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Jackson MS
415 PM CDT Sun Mar 15 2026
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1230 PM Non-Tstm Wnd Dmg 1 S Grenada 33.76N 89.81W
03/15/2026 Grenada MS Other Federal
Power line down in the Whitehaven
Subdivision in Grenada, caused a grass fire.
&&
CEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 3:06 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | JAN | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 41 more | 23 hr |
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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.