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Tornado Watch 173
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 28, 2026, 1:54 PM CDT for 36 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2026, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2026, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 36 counties
Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Issaquena, Warren, Yazoo | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Leake | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Winston | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Montgomery, Winston | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston | 77 min |
| Apr 28, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Grenada, Leflore, Sunflower | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 62 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 619 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada and 11 more | 115 min |
| Apr 28, 1:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Hinds, Holmes, Humphreys and 11 more | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 2:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola and 5 more | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Clarke, Holmes, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale and 7 more | 115 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.