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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Jackson, MS

March 15, 2026Clay County, Webster County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2026, 9:43 PM CDT for Clay County, Webster County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2026, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Clay County, MS, Webster County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 391 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 329 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 15, 8:47 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 8:47 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 15, 8:52 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Jackson MS
852 PM CDT Sun Mar 15 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0800 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     3 WNW Cleveland         33.76N 90.77W
03/15/2026                   Bolivar            MS   Fire Dept/Rescue

            A few power poles were leaning along hwy 8.

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 9:15 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 9:16 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 9:24 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 15, 9:36 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 9:41 PM CDT, 2 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 15, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	68 min
Mar 15, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	80 min
Mar 15, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	43 min
Mar 15, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower, Washington	65 min
Mar 15, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	58 min
Mar 15, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower	62 min
Mar 15, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington	46 min
Mar 15, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery, Webster	41 min
Mar 15, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Hinds, Issaquena, Warren	58 min
Mar 15, 9:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	39 min
Mar 15, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Yazoo	66 min
Mar 15, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	62 min
Mar 15, 10:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Attala, Choctaw, Oktibbeha	42 min
Mar 15, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Adams, Franklin, Jefferson	57 min
Mar 15, 10:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Leake, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	58 min
Mar 15, 10:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lowndes	63 min
Mar 15, 11:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin, Scott	39 min
Mar 15, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	62 min
Mar 15, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston	76 min
Mar 15, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln	54 min
Mar 15, 11:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Newton, Smith	67 min
Mar 16, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale	74 min
Mar 16, 12:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Covington, Jones	66 min
Mar 16, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Marion	60 min
Mar 16, 1:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	54 min
Mar 16, 1:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Jones	35 min
Mar 16, 2:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Forrest	45 min
Mar 16, 2:32 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	JAN	Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 41 more	31 hr
Mar 16, 4:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Adams	41 min
Mar 16, 5:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Franklin	38 min
Mar 16, 5:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lincoln	44 min
Mar 15, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	63 min
Mar 15, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	75 min
Mar 15, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	60 min

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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.