Under a strong area of high pressure. There was enough instability near the surface with daytime heating to produce a strong dust devil in Franklin Parish in Winnsboro.
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The episode as NWS JAN wrote it up.
Under a strong area of high pressure. There was enough instability near the surface with daytime heating to produce a strong dust devil in Franklin Parish in Winnsboro. It blew the metal roof and insulation off of a small storage building and damaged some nearby trees.
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 Sep 16, 2:04 PM CST, 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 304 PM CDT THU SEP 16 2010 .DISCUSSION... SUMMER HEAT WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT WEEK. TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT... A STRONG SUBTROPICAL RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS AS SHORTWAVE ENERGY IN THE WESTERLIES IS DEFLECTED TO OUR NORTH. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL STRUGGLE TO PUSH SOUTHWARD INTO THE ARKLAMISS FRIDAY AND STRONG SUBSIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE RIDGE WILL KEEP A LID ON SHOWER/TSTM DEVELOPMENT AS THE FRONT PUSHES SOUTH. THIS FRONT WILL DO LITTLE OTHER THAN BRING SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR AS AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL RISE INTO THE MID/UPPER 90S AS WE GO INTO THE WEEKEND. /EC/ LONG TERM(SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)...THIS PERIOD WILL BE DOMINATED BY A SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE PARKED OVER THE WRN GULF OF MEXICO SLOWLY SHIFTING WWD INTO NRN MEXICO/WRN TX NEXT WEEK. THIS KEEPS THE LOWER MS VALLEY IN LIGHT NWLY FLOW ABOVE 300MB OVER THE WEEKEND WHILE A MID LEVEL RIDGE(592DM AT 500MB) CENTER MOVES FROM AR ON SUNDAY TO SC ON WEDNESDAY. THE EWD SHIFT OF THESE MID AND LOWER LEVEL RIDGE CENTERS SHOULD BEGIN TO OPEN THE GULF UP SOMEWHAT TO GREATER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FLOW FOR THE LATTER HALF OF NEXT WEEK. PWATS THAT START OUT JUST BELOW 1 INCH THIS WEEKEND...GRADUALLY RISE TO BETWEEN 1.1 AND 1.4 INCHES BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. THEREFORE...OUR DRY REGIME WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH THE FIRST OF NEXT WEEK WITH A LITTLE BETTER CHANCE AT AFTERNOON SHRA/TSRA ARRIVING OVER OUR SRN SECTIONS FROM ABOUT WEDNESDAY AND BEYOND. THE TROPICAL SCENE IN THE GULF MAY BECOME MORE INVOLVED TOWARD THE END OF NEXT WEEK AS WELL. CONFIDENCE IN THE OVERALL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURE REGIME REMAINS QUITE HIGH WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS AVERAGING 5 TO 10 DEGREES ABOVE CLIMATOLOGY. GFS ENSEMBLE MOS REMAINS VERY CONSISTENT WITH NEARLY ALL MEMBERS WITHIN 5-6F OF EACH OTHER THROUGH THE 7 DAY PERIOD. /40/ && .AVIATION... EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH LIGHT SOUTHERLY WINDS. THE VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO PREVAIL OVER MOST SITES TONIGHT...BUT ANOTHER ROUND OF MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS IN FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY ON FRIDAY FOR HBG AS LOW LEVEL MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW CONTINUES./15/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... JACKSON 69 95 66 96 / 7 3 1 5 MERIDIAN 65 95 64 95 / 6 3 1 5 VICKSBURG 66 96 65 97 / 7 3 0 5 HATTIESBURG 70 96 68 95 / 3 3 2 10 NATCHEZ 69 93 68 94 / 4 3 2 10 GREENVILLE 69 96 68 96 / 7 2 1 5 GREENWOOD 68 96 66 95 / 8 2 2 5 && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. && EC/15/40
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 240 PM CDT THU SEP 16 2010 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 171945- 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- 240 PM CDT THU SEP 16 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .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. 15
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
A strong dust devil blew the metal roof and insulation off of a small storage building. Some nearby trees were bent to near the point of snapping. It was reported by the Franklin Sun newspaper.
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