1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 23, 4:12 AM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 412 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005 .SHORT TERM... COMPLEX FORECAST TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. HAVE OPTED TO SIDE WITH THE CONSISTENT GLOBAL MODELS...ECMWF...UKMET AND GFS...FOR THIS PACKAGE. THESE MODELS HAVE INITIALIZED BETTER THAN THE MESOSCALE NAM...PARTICULARLY W/RT SFC FEATURES. TODAY AND TONIGHT...MAINLY COSMETIC CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE GOING FORECAST. A SFC FRONT...WHICH MY BEST APPROXIMATION PLACES IT ROUGHLY FROM SHREVEPORT LA TO PORT GIBSON AND LAUREL MS AT THIS HOUR...WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY ALL DAY. A DECENT UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEASTWARD OUT OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND DEVELOP A SFC LOW WHICH WILL MOVE ALONG THIS STALLED FRONT. ISENTROPIC LIFT...FOCUSED PRIMARILY IN THE 300K TO 310K LAYER WILL INSTIGATE PERIODS OF SHRA OVER THE AREA BEGINNING THIS MORNING OVER MY WESTERN CWFA AND BUILDING EASTWARD DURING THE AFTERNOON. IT LOOKS AS THOUGH EVERYONE WILL SEE RAINFALL TODAY AND HAVE PLACED 100 POPS EVERYWHERE...PARTICULARLY THIS AFTERNOON. TSRA WILL ALSO BE A CONCERN TODAY. NORTH OF THE SFC BOUNDARY...ELEVATED TSRA WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH LIS WEAKLY NEGATIVE AND 700-500MB LAPSE RATES AROUND 7 C/KM. SOUTH OF THE SFC BOUNDARY...CONVECTION WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ROOT AT THE SFC. SFC BASED CAPE OF AROUND 1000 J/KG...LIS AROUND -3C...LAPSE RATES NEAR 7 C/KM AND DEEP LAYER SHEAR OF APPROX 35 KTS SUGGEST THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS. WITH 500MB TEMPS NEAR -15C AND WET BULB ZERO HGTS LESS THAN 10 KFT...HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE RISK. SHEAR IN PROXIMITY TO THE FRONT COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO OR TWO. WILL CONTINUE CURRENT WORDING IN THE HWO. TEMP WISE...WIDESPREAD CLOUD COVER WILL LIMIT HEATING POTENTIAL TODAY. THERE WILL BE A STOUT TEMP GRADIENT...RANGING FROM THE LOWER 50S IN THE DELTA TO THE UPPER 60S IN SE MS. AS PREV PACKAGE MENTIONED...RAIN WILL BE SLOWER TO MOVE OUT. HAVE BUMPED POPS TO 100 IN SE SECTIONS...TAPERING TO CHC AFTER MIDNIGHT. THINKING W/ REGARD TO QPF FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT HAS NOT CHANGED WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL EXPECTED WITH AN ISOLATED 3 INCH AMOUNT IN MY SOUTHERN CWFA. THUR AND THUR NIGHT...DIFFERENCES ABOUND THESE PERIODS. THE GLOBAL MODELS SHIFT THE COLD FRONT SOUTH OF THE AREA BY THUR AFTERNOON WHILE THE NAM IS A BIT MORE SLUGGISH. AT MANY SITES...MOS POP VALUES RANGE FROM 10 (MAV) TO 100 (NAM/FWC) PERCENT. ON THE BRIGHT SIDE... AT LEAST ONE OF THE GUIDANCE WILL BE RIGHT. WILL AGAIN SIDE WITH THE GLOBAL MODELS. HAVE TRENDED POPS TOWARD MAV VALUES THUR... MAINTAINING A SLGT CHC OF LGT SHRA IN THE NORTH AND A LOW END CHC IN THE SOUTH...CLOSEST TO THE SFC BNDRY. IF THERE IS ANY CERTAINTY IT WILL BE THE SKIES WILL CLOUD AND TEMPS WILL BE COOLER THAN EXPERIENCED THE PAST FEW DAYS. MOST OF THE AREA WILL HOVER IN THE UPPER 40S TO MIDDLE 50S THURSDAY...COOLING TO THE UPPER 30S/LOWER 40S THUR NIGHT. .LONG TERM...BY FRIDAY MORNING PCPN WILL BE ENDING IN OUR SOUTHEAST COUNTIES AS THE WEAK WAVE CONTINUES EAST OF OUR AREA ALONG THE OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THE REX BLOCK WILL FINALLY BREAK DOWN IN THE WEST AND BROAD RIDGING ALOFT WILL DEVELOP OVER OUR REGION INTO THE WEEKEND. THIS WILL SHIFT THE SOUTHERN BRANCH OF THE JET STREAM FURTHER SOUTH TAKING THE FOCUS FOR RAINFALL DEVELOP INTO THE GULF AND WELL SOUTH OF OUR CWA. SFC HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OVER THE GREAT LAKES REGION FRIDAY WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST TO THE EASTERN SEA BOARD BY SUNDAY MORNING. THIS WILL PROVIDE A COOLER AND DRIER NE FLOW INTO OUR REGION THAT WILL SERVE TO KEEP TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN BELOW NORMAL FOR THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK AS A COUPLE OF COLD FRONTS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY THE SFC HIGH WILL SLIDE INTO THE ATLANTIC WHILE A NORTHERN STREAM UPPER TROUGH DIGS SOUTH OVER THE CENTRAL U.S. WEAK RETURN FLOW WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE MOISTURE INTO OUR REGION WHILE CYCLOGENESIS OCCURS OVER THE GREAT LAKES. THE SFC LOW WILL LIFT NE INTO CANADA MONDAY WITH THE TRAILING COLD FRONT MOVING INTO OUR DELTA REGION BY MIDDAY MONDAY. CURRENTLY INSTABILITY LOOKS TO REMAIN LIMITED MONDAY AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA AND WL NOT MENTION THUNDER. THE RAIN WILL BE OVER BY TUESDAY MORNING AND HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRIEFLY MOVE ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY REGION. THE LARGE UPPER LOW OVER THE EASTERN U.S. WILL BEGIN TO SHIFT EAST WEDNESDAY BUT NOT BEFORE SENDING A STRONG REINFORCING COLD FRONT SOUTH ACROSS OUR REGION DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY. GFS/GFSLR DOES GENERATE SOME QPF WITH THE FRONT BUT WL GO WITH A DRY FROPA FOR NOW. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... JACKSON 64 48 51 39 / 100 80 20 10 MERIDIAN 66 53 56 38 / 100 100 20 10 && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM: GAGAN LONG TERM: MME
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 0542 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 241142- ADAMS-ASHLEY-ATTALA-BOLIVAR-CARROLL-CATAHOULA-CHICOT-CHOCTAW- CLAIBORNE-CLARKE-CLAY-CONCORDIA-COPIAH-COVINGTON-EAST CARROLL- FORREST-FRANKLIN LA-FRANKLIN MS-GRENADA-HINDS-HOLMES-HUMPHREYS- ISSAQUENA-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-JONES-KEMPER-LAMAR- LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEAKE-LEFLORE-LINCOLN-LOWNDES-MADISON LA- MADISON MS-MARION-MONTGOMERY-MOREHOUSE-NESHOBA-NEWTON-NOXUBEE- OKTIBBEHA-RANKIN-RICHLAND-SCOTT-SHARKEY-SIMPSON-SMITH-SUNFLOWER- TENSAS-WARREN-WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WEST CARROLL-WINSTON-YAZOO- 0542 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...THUNDERSTORMS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG AND SOUTH OF A BASTROP LOUISIANA TO DE KALB MISSISSIPPI LINE. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER RISK WILL BE HAIL GREATER THAN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH. AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. A FRONT WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI TODAY. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TO OUR WEST ALONG THE FRONT AS AN UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. WITH STRONG JET STREAM DYNAMICS...AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS...AND SUFFICIENT WIND SHEAR (WHICH IS THE CHANGE IN WIND DIRECTION AND/OR SPEED WITH HEIGHT)...SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO. ...FLOODING... RAIN MAY BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON...RESULTING IN THE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. SOUTHERLY FLOW IN THE LOW LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO ADVECT COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. AS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP TODAY...LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE POSSIBLE. STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE COMMON ACROSS THE AREA...HOWEVER ISOLATED 3 INCH AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...WHERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE COMMONPLACE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTER GROUPS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...MAY BE NEEDED ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR THIS AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE EVENING OF TUESDAY MARCH 1. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 177 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:32 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Quarter sized hail covered the ground along a path from near Drew, northeast into Tallahatchie county.
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