Scattered thunderstorms develop during the afternoon hours across the region. A few of these storms became severe and produced damaging wind gusts.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS JAN wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms develop during the afternoon hours across the region. A few of these storms became severe and produced damaging wind gusts.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 23, 2:34 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 334 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 .DISCUSSION...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...WITH HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT CENTERED ALMOST DIRECTLY OVER THE REGION...ANOTHER HOT DAY IS BEING OBSERVED ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TODAY AS HIGHS THIS AFTERNOON WERE TOPPING OUT AROUND THE CENTURY MARK. TO THE EAST OF THE AREA...WHERE A MORE MOIST AIRMASS EXISTS...A WEAKENING MCS IS PUSHING WEST SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA. A DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BOUNDARY RUNNING NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA AND INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAMA HAS INITIATED SOME CONVECTION ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. SOME ISOLATED CONVECTION HAS ALSO BEGUN TO DEVELOP OVER MY EASTERN ZONES THIS AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT...ILL MAINTAIN AT LEAST SOME ISOLATED POPS IN THIS AREA AS WELL AS IN THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE EVENING. AGAIN LOOKING AT THE FLOW AROUND THIS UPPER RIDGE THATS CURRENTLY OVER US...THIS AIRMASS ALONG WITH THE DECAYING CONVECTIVE COMPLEX IS PROGGED TO SHIFT TO THE WEST TOWARDS THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. THIS COULD BRING AN ISOLATED SHOWER TO THE SOUTHEAST LATE TONIGHT...BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE AREA WILL REMAIN DRY. THIS WILL ALSO BRING AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE TO THE AREA ALONG WITH SOME INCREASED CLOUD COVER TONIGHT WHICH COULD PLAY A ROLE IN KEEPING TEMPERATURES UP A BIT...MAINLY IN THE SOUTHEAST. FOR FRIDAY...WHILE THE UPPER RIDGE WILL REMAIN IN CONTROL OF THE WEATHER OVER THE FORECAST AREA...IT WILL BEGIN TO SLOWLY BREAKDOWN THROUGH THE DAY. WITH A SLIGHT INCREASE IN MOISTURE EXPECTED ...PRECIPITABLE H2O VALUES CLIMB UP AROUND 1.75 INCHES...HIGH TEMPERATURES FRIDAY SHOULDNT BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS. NONE THE LESS...ITLL STILL REMAIN PRETTY TOASTY OUTSIDE AS HIGHS SHOULD STILL CLIMB INTO THE MID AND UPPER 90S WITH A FEW LOCATIONS...MAINLY IN THE DELTA...REACHING 100. /19/ SATURDAY THROUGH NEXT THURSDAY...DID NOT MAKE ANY REAL ADJUSTMENTS BEYOND SATURDAY. STILL LOOKS LIKE A BOUNDARY WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA SATURDAY AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION OUTFLOW FROM THE EASTWARD MOVING COMPLEXES EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST STATES OVER THE NEXT DAY OR TWO...MAY PUSH SOME OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES INTO THE EASTERN ZONES. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...SO LEFT SMALL RAIN CHANCES IN FOR THE EAST. LATEST GUIDANCE BACKED OFF ON RAIN FOR SUNDAY...BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY. WINDS SHIFT FOR MUCH OF THE AREA BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON...ALTHOUGH THE MODEL SUGGESTS THE BOUNDARY MAY WASH OUT. BOTH THE GFS AND NAM SHOW CONVECTION BREAKING OUT ACROSS AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON...SO DECIDED TO MAINTAIN PREVIOUS FORECAST. BOUNDARY SHOULD BRING SOME SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR INTO THE NORTH...BUT NOT REALLY LOOKING FOR ANY REAL RELIEF FROM THE HEAT. THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S THROUGH THE PERIOD. THE RIDGE SHIFTS OFF TO THE EAST EARLY NEXT WEEK...WHICH ALLOWS THE BOUNDARY TO RETURN MOIST AIR INTO THE AREA THROUGH MID WEEK...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. SLIGHT/CHANCE POPS LOOK GOOD THROUGH THE WEEK FOR THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA...NOT SURE HOW FAR NORTH THE ACTIVITY WILL MOVE. HOWEVER ANOTHER BOUNDARY DROPS INTO THE AREA AROUND THURSDAY AND MAY BRING SOME MUCH NEEDED RAIN TO THE NORTH. ALTHOUGH BEYOND THE PERIOD...THE GFS SHOWS THE BOUNDARY SINKING SOUTH TOWARD THE COAST AND HIGH PRESSURE PUSHES MORE DRY AIR INTO THE REGION FOR NEXT WEEKEND. OVERALL NO BIG CHANGES TO THE FORECAST. /07/ && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL AT ALL TAF SITES OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. /19/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... JACKSON 73 98 73 96 / 9 4 6 13 MERIDIAN 72 96 71 95 / 16 2 12 19 VICKSBURG 71 98 71 97 / 6 4 5 12 HATTIESBURG 74 95 73 95 / 33 10 6 20 NATCHEZ 71 94 72 93 / 9 9 5 12 GREENVILLE 71 101 73 98 / 4 4 5 12 GREENWOOD 71 99 72 97 / 4 4 5 12 && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR MSZ018-019-025>039. LA...NONE. AR...HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR ARZ074-075. && 19/07
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 411 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 242115- ASHLEY-CHICOT-MOREHOUSE-WEST CARROLL-EAST CARROLL-RICHLAND- MADISON-FRANKLIN-CATAHOULA-TENSAS-CONCORDIA-BOLIVAR-SUNFLOWER- LEFLORE-GRENADA-CARROLL-MONTGOMERY-WEBSTER-CLAY-LOWNDES-CHOCTAW- OKTIBBEHA-WASHINGTON-HUMPHREYS-HOLMES-ATTALA-WINSTON-NOXUBEE- ISSAQUENA-SHARKEY-YAZOO-LEAKE-NESHOBA-KEMPER-WARREN-HINDS-RANKIN- SCOTT-NEWTON-LAUDERDALE-CLAIBORNE-COPIAH-SIMPSON-SMITH-JASPER- CLARKE-JEFFERSON-ADAMS-LINCOLN-LAWRENCE-JEFFERSON DAVIS-COVINGTON- JONES-MARION-LAMAR-FORREST- 411 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND FRIDAY ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MAINLY EAST AND SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WITH TEMPERATURES PEAKING AROUND THE 100 DEGREE MARK THIS AFTERNOON IN AN ALREADY MODERATELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS EAST AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. WITH MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES ALOFT...SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE PRODUCING STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS. AREAS MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF A MACON TO NEWTON TO COLUMBIA LINE WILL SEE THE BEST CHANCE OF EXPERIENCING ANY STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS. ALSO...HOT CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS FIRMLY IN CONTROL OF OUR WEATHER. AFTERNOON HIGHS WILL AGAIN APPROACH 100 DEGREES FOR MANY LOCATIONS...WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES APPROACHING 105 DEGREES IN SOME LOCATIONS...ESPECIALLY IN THE DELTA REGION. PERSONS SHOULD CONTINUE TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS WHEN MAKING PLANS FOR OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ON FRIDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. 19
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 337 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 MSZ039-046-232105- KEMPER MS-NOXUBEE MS- 337 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 ...GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN NOXUBEE AND NORTHERN KEMPER COUNTIES... TWO DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WERE LOCATED NEAR GHOLSON AT 337 PM CDT. THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS ACTIVITY. PEOPLE IN KEMPER AND NOXUBEE COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITY OF PRESTON...SHOULD MONITOR THESE STORMS CLOSELY. BYB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 544 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 MSZ058-232315- CLARKE MS- 544 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2007 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF CRANDALL AT 544 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. ALTHOUGH THIS STORM IS STILL IN ALABAMA...IT WILL SLOWLY MOVE INTO EASTERN CLARKE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI THROUGH 630 PM. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN EASTERN CLARKE COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. CME
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:03 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Porch supports to a house were blown down along with some fascia pulled off the eve of the same house. Several large limbs were also blown down in the area.
A power line was blown down just east of Pineville along Highway 534.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, August 2007
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 53458, 53459.