A large surface cyclone and upper level low developed over the Mid West on April 11th and pushed a cold front through the region. Scattered thunderstorms developed ahead and along this front and produced scattered severe thunderstorms as they moved east.
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The episode as NWS JAN wrote it up.
A large surface cyclone and upper level low developed over the Mid West on April 11th and pushed a cold front through the region. Scattered thunderstorms developed ahead and along this front and produced scattered severe thunderstorms as they moved east. Hail, some as large as baseballs, was the main type of severe weather as a few supercell thunderstorms tracked east across several counties. Some wind damage occurred as well but was more isolated in nature.
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 Apr 11, 10:25 AM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1125 AM CDT FRI APR 11 2008 .DISCUSSION...THE CAP HAS ERODED OVER THE REGION AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED. WITH HEALTHY MID LEVEL FLOW AND SURFACE DEWPOINTS UP TO 70 DEGREES WE WILL SEE A CONTINUED POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS FOR AREAS AHEAD OF THE FRONT. A SMALLER CHANCE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT REMAINS BUT THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER RISK TODAY WILL BE DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. MODELS SHOW THE WIND FIELDS VEERING AT LOWER LEVELS DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON...WHICH WILL HAMPER TORNADO DEVELOPMENT...BUT EXPANSIVE DRY LAYERS AT MID AND UPPER LEVELS WILL CONTRIBUTE SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WIND IN SEVERE STORMS TODAY. GENERALLY INCREASED AFTERNOON HIGHS FROM THE NATCHEZ TRACE EWD... ESPECIALLY FOR AREAS OVER SERN MS. SATELLITE PIX SHOW THE MOST CAPPED REGION OVER SERN ZONES ALTHOUGH THE CAP WILL WEAKEN WITH TIME THERE AND ALLOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE. IN THE MEANTIME AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL WARM A FEW DEGREES ABOVE THOSE PREVIOUSLY FORECAST. && .AVIATION...MVFR TO VFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES WITH CEILINGS GENERALLY BETWEEN 2K-4K FEET WILL PREVAIL FOR MOST OF THE REGION THROUGH THE DAY AS A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. THIS WILL BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO AREAS MAINLY AROUND THE NATCHEZ TRACE CORRIDOR AND SOUTHEAST OF THIS AREA...MAINLY AFFECTING ALL SITES EXCEPT KGLH. THIS ACTIVITY COULD BRING PERIODS OF IFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES DUE TO VSBY RESTRICTIONS FROM RAIN. CEILINGS AND CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST TODAY. KGLH SHOULD BE PREVAILING WITH VFR FLIGHT CATEGORIES BY AROUND THE TIME THE 18Z PACKAGE IS ISSUED. CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TO VFR FOR KHBG AND KMEI CLOSER TO THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD AS THE FRONT WILL BE MOVING OUT OF THESE AREAS LAST. /14/ .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. && 03/14
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 915 AM CDT FRI APR 11 2008 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 121000- 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- 915 AM CDT FRI APR 11 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM LATE MORNING THROUGH EARLY EVENING...MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM HARRISONBURG LOUISIANA...TO GRENADA. THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY WILL BE IN AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF THE NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY CORRIDOR. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY RISK WITH ANY SEVERE STORMS. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS COULD PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS. A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA TODAY. BY LATE MORNING...THE FRONT WILL BE ALONG A LINE FROM HARRISONBURG TO GRENADA BY 11 AM...AND BY 6 PM SHOULD BE ALONG THE INTERSTATE 59 CORRIDOR. AHEAD OF THE LINE...DAYTIME HEATING WILL RESULT IN A VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. THE COMBINATION OF THE APPROACHING FRONT AND STRONG INSTABILITY WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF VIGOROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH COULD PRODUCE WIND DAMAGE AND HAIL. VERY DRY AIR ALOFT IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL ENHANCE THIS RISK...RESULTING IN THE POTENTIAL FOR AT LEAST A FEW INCIDENTS OF SIGNIFICANT WIND AND HAIL. WINDS IN LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE WEAKENING THROUGH THE DAY...RESULTING IN A DIMINISHING RISK OF TORNADOES. HOWEVER... THERE WILL STILL BE AT LEAST A LOW TORNADO RISK THROUGH THE DAY...AND IT WILL LIKELY BE MAXIMIZED BETWEEN ABOUT 11 AM AND 3 PM. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL END WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL BE LOW. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...MAY BE NEEDED TODAY OVER THE SOUTHEAST TWO-THIRDS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. OTHERWISE...ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1056 AM CDT FRI APR 11 2008 MSZ027>029-111640- WEBSTER MS-CARROLL MS-MONTGOMERY MS- 1056 AM CDT FRI APR 11 2008 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF COILA AT 1056 AM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT MUCH OF MONTGOMERY AND WESTERN WEBSTER COUNTIES. PEOPLE IN CARROLL...MONTGOMERY AND WEBSTER COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF BLACK HAWK AND WINONA...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. EEC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1114 AM CDT FRI APR 11 2008 MSZ036-111645- HOLMES MS- 1114 AM CDT FRI APR 11 2008 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF THORNTON AT 1114 AM CDT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN HOLMES COUNTY...AFFECTING THE TCHULA AREA. PEOPLE IN HOLMES COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF TCHULA...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. EEC
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:55 UTC.
13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A swath of dime to penny sized hail fell across a good portion of central Montgomery County.
A couple trees were blown down.
A swath of dime to penny sized hail fell across all of southern Webster County.
A few trees were blown down on power lines in the Pine Bluff Community.
A few power lines were blown down along Highway 45.
A intensifying supercell thunderstorm produced a swath of quarter to baseball sized hail. Hamburg was the main community to be impacted by this storm as it tracked east-northeast across northwest Franklin County. The supercell continued to produce large hail as it tracked into and across southeast Jefferson County.
An intense supercell thunderstorm produced a swath of quarter to baseball sized hail across southeast Jefferson County. The storm began to track more east and moved into far northwest Lincoln county.
A tree and a power line were blown down across a road.
An intensifying supercell thunderstorm produced a swath of quarter to ping pong ball sized hail across northern Kemper County. This storm continued to produce large hail as it moved into southeast Noxubee County and then into west-central Alabama.
An intense and long lived supercell thunderstorm tracked across all of northern Lincoln County and produced a swath of golf ball to baseball sized hail. Communities from Caseyville to Loyd Star were impacted by this storm. The storm dissipated just as it was exiting far northeast Lincoln County.
Several trees were blown down along Highway 39.
A swath of quarter to ping pong ball sized hail fell across southeast Noxubee County as a strong supercell thunderstorm tracked east-northeast.
The rear flank down draft of an intense supercell thunderstorm downed numerous trees. Many of these hardwood and softwood trees were snapped and uprooted. A mobile home had the roof partially torn off and damaged occurred to the skirting on several other mobile homes. One tree fell on a home causing major roof damage. The damage swath was around 3 miles long and contained winds around 90 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, April 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: 96619, 96618, 96620, 96621, 96623, 96624, 96625, 96626, 98151, 98159, 98155, 98156, 98165, 98174, 98172, 98170, 98184, 98185, 98187.