Scattered thunderstorms developed across the area and a few reached severe limits which produced scattered wind damage.
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 developed across the area and a few reached severe limits which produced scattered wind damage.
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 Jun 9, 7:40 PM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 840 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 .UPDATE...LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS AN UPPER TROUGH MOVING TOWARD THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WITH CLUSTERS OF STORMS EXTENDING FROM THE ARKLATEX TO THE OHIO VALLEY. THESE STORMS WERE ALONG A SLOW MOVING FRONT. SOME OF THESE CLUSTERS WERE MOVING TOWARD OUR NORTHWEST DELTA REGION. THE OTHER STORMS THAT WERE SEA BREEZE INDUCED IS DIMINISHING AS THEY MOVE NORTH OVER THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. WITH THE GOOD COVERAGE HEADING TOWARD THE DELTA REGION HAVE INCREASED POPS AROUND 10 TO 20 PERCENT IN THE NORTHWEST. HOWEVER MODELS...LOCAL WRF AND 4.0 KM US WRF SHOWS THAT THE STORMS WILL WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE INTO THE NORTHWEST DELTA. SO EXPECT THE BEST COVERAGE TO STAY IN THE NORTHWEST. ISOLATED STRONG TO A FEW SEVERE STORMS IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION FOR THE NORTHWEST. OTHERWISE WILL KEEP THE CURRENT LOWS WITH UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S BEING THE RANGE./17/ && .AVIATION...AN APPROACHING CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER ARKANSAS THIS EVENING WILL BEGIN MOVING INTO PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST BY 03-04Z. THIS ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE IN THE NORTH THROUGH 06Z AND GRADUALLY WEAKEN THEREAFTER. MVFR TO IFR VISIBILITIES AND CEILINGS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE AREA BY 10Z...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE RAIN THIS EVENING. EXPECT CLOUDS TO LIFT TO VFR CONDITIONS BY 14Z. DRIER AIR MAY LIMIT CONVECTION IN THE NORTHWEST TUESDAY BUT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE DAY ELSEWHERE. /17/ && ./PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...415 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...WEAKENED HIGH PRESSURE AND A MORE ACTIVE SEA BREEZE IS PROVIDING GREATER COVERAGE OF STORMS THIS AFTERNOON. MOST OF THE COVERAGE IS OVER OUR SOUTHEAST COUNTIES AND THIS ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTH INTO THE CENTRAL PORTIONS THIS EVENING. THIS ACTIVITY WILL GRADUALLY DISSIPATE AFTER SUNSET BUT AN APPROACHING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER ARKANSAS WILL BEGIN MOVING INTO PORTIONS OF THE DELTA ABOUT THE SAME TIME. THE ACTIVITY OVER ARKANSAS WAS DEVELOPING ALONG A SEMI STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH. THE MODELS DIFFER CONSIDERABLY WITH THE AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY THAT WILL SURVIVE INTO OUR CWA TONIGHT. THE GFS TAKES THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER ARKANSAS SOUTH AS AN MCS WHILE THE LOCAL WRF RUNS DISSIPATE THE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO OUR CWFA. THE 4KM WRF AND NAM MAINTAIN MORE ACTIVITY ALONG THE LINE DEEPER INTO OUR CWA TONIGHT. OUR WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS CAME IN RATHER DRY THIS MORNING WITH A PW NEAR AN INCH AND A QUARTER AND LITTLE DEEP LAYER SHEAR IS EXPECTED OVER OUR AREA. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...WL MENTION STRONG TO ISOLATED SEVERE IN THE HWO FOR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. THE UPPER TROUGH WILL SHIFT RAPIDLY EAST TUESDAY LEAVING THE WEAKENING BOUNDARY STALLED ACROSS OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES. DRIER AIR IS EXPECTED TO FILTER IN BEHIND THE BOUNDARY OVER OUR DELTA REGION TONIGHT. THIS WILL LIKELY HINDER CONVECTION TUESDAY BUT ELSEWHERE...DAYTIME HEATING WILL LEAD TO REDEVELOPMENT OF ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY. A FEW ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE IN THE MIX. HAVE GONE ABOVE MAV POPS IN THE SOUTH THROUGH THE PERIOD. TEMPERATURES WERE CLOSE AND GENERALLY ACCEPTED. /22/ .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...THE WEAKENED BOUNDARY WILL BE TO THE EAST OF THE CWFA ON WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL STILL BE PLENTY OF MOISTURE OVER THE AREA...ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTH AND EAST WHERE PWATS WILL BE AROUND 1.5-1.7 INCHES. FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATE THAT THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA WILL BE CAPPED THROUGH THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. THIS SHOULD HAMPER ANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY OVER THIS AREA. THE CAP WILL NOT BE QUITE AS PRONOUNCED OVER SOUTHERN AND ESPECIALLY EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWFA ON WEDNESDAY...AND THESE LOCATIONS WILL BE CLOSER TO THE REMNANTS OF THE BOUNDARY. THIS SHOULD ALLOW FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED ACTIVITY FOR THIS PORTION OF THE CWFA WEDNESDAY. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY SHOULD BE MAINLY DIURNALLY DRIVEN...SO THE AREA SHOULD SEE A DECREASE IN ACTIVITY BY THE MID TO LATE EVENING HOURS WEDNESDAY. MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER THE AREA ON THURSDAY AHEAD OF THE NEXT APPROACHING BOUNDARY WITH PWATS RISING TO AROUND 1.7-1.8 INCHES. THIS COMBINED WITH SLIGHTLY MORE INSTABILITY SHOULD ALLOW FOR MORE SCATTERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. HAVE REMAINED RATHER CLOSE TO GUI FOR BOTH POPS AN TEMPS. TEMPERATURES SHOULD PRETTY MUCH BE IN THE LOWER 90S ON WEDNESDAY WITH LOWER 70S EXPECTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT. BEYOND THURSDAY THE FORECAST REMAINS PRETTY MUCH UNCHANGED AS THERE WAS NO NEED TO GO AGAINST THE PREVIOUS FORECAST. THIS PORTION OF THE PREVIOUS DISCUSSION IS ATTACHED. /14/ BY FRIDAY...MOISTURE WILL BE AROUND 2 INCHES AND SOUNDINGS SHOW NEARLY 5500J OF CAPE ALONG I-20 AND AROUND 4000J ALONG HWY 82 AND AROUND 5000J ALONG HWY 82. THE NEXT BOUNDARY APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE NORTH AROUND FRIDAY EVENING. MEANWHILE...MOISTURE AND A WEAK BOUNDARY GET PUSHED NORTH INTO THE AREA SATURDAY. THE SYSTEMS APPEAR TO MERGE ALONG I-20 AND REMAIN THE FOCUS FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE CWA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE EUROPEAN HAS A SIMILAR SOLUTION...SO HIGHER POPS TOWARD THE END OF THE FORECAST LOOK OK. 850-700MB LAPSE RATES WERE AROUND 7 WED-THU. BEING THE END OF THE WEEK WILL LEAVE THE HWO CLEAR. WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH...BUT WITH TRANSITION INTO SUMMER...AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WITH A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE STATUS QUO FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. OTHERWISE...IT WILL REMAIN HOT AND HUMID ACROSS THE AREA. HIGHS WILL REMAIN IN THE LOWER TO MID 90S...WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES REMAINING BELOW 100 THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND. /07/ && .AVIATION...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE TO THE NORTH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE AREA THIS EVENING AND INTO THE CENTRAL PORTIONS. THESE STORMS WILL WEAKEN AFTER SUNSET...BUT AN APPROACHING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BEGIN MOVING INTO PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST BY 03Z. THIS ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE IN THE NORTH THROUGH 06Z AND GRADUALLY WEAKEN THEREAFTER. MVFR TO IFR VISIBILITIES AND CEILINGS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE AREA BY 10Z...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE RAIN THIS EVENING. DRIER AIR MAY LIMIT CONVECTION IN THE NORTHWEST TUESDAY BUT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE DAY ELSEWHERE. /22/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... JACKSON 71 90 70 91 / 22 22 12 18 MERIDIAN 70 89 67 91 / 19 26 17 29 VICKSBURG 71 90 70 92 / 27 22 10 14 HATTIESBURG 70 91 70 92 / 16 27 13 27 NATCHEZ 70 88 71 90 / 20 27 11 18 GREENVILLE 72 89 71 92 / 28 19 9 13 GREENWOOD 72 90 71 91 / 24 22 13 22 && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION: 22 LONG TERM: 14/07
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 329 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 102030- ASHLEY-CHICOT-MOREHOUSE-WEST CARROLL-EAST CARROLL-RICHLAND- MADISON LA-FRANKLIN LA-CATAHOULA-TENSAS-CONCORDIA-BOLIVAR- SUNFLOWER-LEFLORE-GRENADA-CARROLL-MONTGOMERY-WEBSTER-CLAY-LOWNDES- CHOCTAW-OKTIBBEHA-WASHINGTON-HUMPHREYS-HOLMES-ATTALA-WINSTON- NOXUBEE-ISSAQUENA-SHARKEY-YAZOO-MADISON MS-LEAKE-NESHOBA-KEMPER- WARREN-HINDS-RANKIN-SCOTT-NEWTON-LAUDERDALE-CLAIBORNE-COPIAH- SIMPSON-SMITH-JASPER-CLARKE-JEFFERSON-ADAMS-FRANKLIN MS-LINCOLN- LAWRENCE-JEFFERSON DAVIS-COVINGTON-JONES-MARION-LAMAR-FORREST- 329 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND TUESDAY ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND EAST-CENTRAL LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING DUE TO THE STORMS SLOW MOVEMENT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER THIS EVENING OVER PORTIONS OF THE DELTA REGION...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM BASTROP TO GRENADA. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE MOVING EAST DURING THE EVENING AND ENTER THE DELTA AFTER SUNSET. THE AIRMASS IN PLACE WILL BE HUMID AND UNSTABLE ENOUGH FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED STRONG...POSSIBLY...SEVERE STORMS. THE RISK FOR ISOLATED STRONG...POSSIBLY SEVERE...STORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE ARKLAMISS TUESDAY. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS AGAIN. DRIER AIR MAY HINDER STORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE DELTA BUT ELSEWHERE...THE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN MOIST AND BECOME UNSTABLE WITH DAYTIME HEATING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY 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 SUNDAY. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. 22
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 728 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 MSZ036-037-100100- HOLMES MS-ATTALA MS- 728 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF GOODMAN AT 728 PM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN ATTALA AND HOLMES COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITY OF DURANT...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. EEC
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
729 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0413 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 NE REDWOOD 32.53N 90.74W
06/09/2008 WARREN MS LAW ENFORCEMENT
SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A FEW TREES DOWN NEAR
BALLGROUND.
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CLBSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 757 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 MSZ032-037-038-100125- CHOCTAW MS-ATTALA MS-WINSTON MS- 757 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN ATTALA AND SOUTHWEST WINSTON COUNTY AT 757 PM CDT. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH...AND AFFECT ATTALA...WINSTON...AND SOUTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN ATTALA...CHOCTAW AND WINSTON COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF KOSCIUSKO AND LOUISVILLE...SHOULD MONITOR THESE STORMS CLOSELY. EEC
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
810 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0732 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 SW EDINBURG 32.78N 89.36W
06/09/2008 LEAKE MS LAW ENFORCEMENT
SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A FEW TREES DOWN IN EASTERN
LEAKE COUNTY NEAR EDINBURG.
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CLBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
844 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0835 PM TSTM WND GST 1 W KOSCIUSKO 33.06N 89.61W
06/09/2008 E0 MPH ATTALA MS PUBLIC
LARGE LIMB DOWN ACROSS HWY 12 NEAR KOSCIUSKO
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JALLENSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1019 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 ARZ074-LAZ007-008-100420- ASHLEY AR-MOREHOUSE LA-WEST CARROLL LA- 1019 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2008 A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CROSSETT AT 1019 PM CDT...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS ASHLEY AND MOREHOUSE PARISHES BEFORE MIDNIGHT. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE IN ASHLEY...MOREHOUSE AND WEST CARROLL PARISHES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF BASTROP...CROSSETT...HAMBURG...NORTH CROSSETT...WEST CROSSETT AND WILMOT...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. EEC
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 190 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:23 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees and large limbs were blown down on power lines.
A few trees and large limbs were blown down on power lines.
A few trees and large limbs were blown down on power lines.
A few trees and large limbs were blown down on power lines.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, June 2008
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: 115265, 115267, 115268, 115269.