Funnel Cloud, Chicot
- When
- June 10, 6:55 PM CST
- Where
- Chicot County, 1.93 mi E of Ashton
- Reported by
- Social Media
- Coordinates
- 33.321, -91.317
A funnel cloud was spotted in Lake Village along Highway 82.
Funnel Cloud in Arkansas, June 10, 2015
The combination of rich gulf moisture, instability, and strong moisture convergence aided in providing an isolated strong storm over Chicot county.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS JAN wrote it up.
The combination of rich gulf moisture, instability, and strong moisture convergence aided in providing an isolated strong storm over Chicot county.
What forecasters said that day
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 10, 2:41 PM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:41 PM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 341 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015 .DISCUSSION... SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)...AFTERNOON SATELLITE SHOWS SCT CU FIELD ACROSS AREA WITH WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS DEVELOPING IN SEVERAL SPOTS. CONVECTION SHOULD GRADUALLY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH AFTERNOON PARTICULARLY OVER SOUTH AND EAST WHERE INFLUENCE OF MID/UPPER SHEAR ZONE EXISTS. TEMPS HAVE RISEN TO AROUND 90F...AND SPC MESOANALYSIS SHOWS STRONGEST INSTABILITY OVER WRN AREAS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON WHERE SBCAPE VALUES ARE NEAR 4000 J/KG. COULD BE A FEW PULSE SEVERE STORMS PRIMARILY IN THIS AREA THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON...BUT AS MENTIONED THIS MORNING DOES NOT APPEAR TO WARRANT MENTION IN HWO. ONLY SUBTLE CHANGES EXPECTED IN OVERALL PATTERN THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT AS WEAK MID/UPPER LEVEL LOW DROPS SW INTO NW GULF AND STRONGER MID LEVEL SYSTEM DROPS INTO SOUTHERN PLAINS... RESULTING IN DEEPER MOISTURE GRADUALLY INCREASING ACROSS OUR AREA. THIS WILL RESULT IN SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS ON THU WITH POPS TRENDING HIGHER IN THE SE AREAS. FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY WILL SEE PATTERN CONTINUE TO EVOLVE...WITH LOW/MID LEVEL BERMUDA HIGH STRENGTHENING NEAR SE CONUS COAST. THIS WILL RESULT IN INCREASING LOW/MID LEVEL SOUTHERLY FLOW ACROSS OUR AREA...WHICH WILL ENABLE ANOMALOUSLY HIGH TROPICAL MOISTURE OVER SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO TO BE PULLED NORTH INTO OUR AREA. AXIS OF GREATEST MOISTURE AND MOISTURE TRANSPORT WILL BE FOCUSED IN WESTERN AREAS...WHERE BY SAT AFTERNOON GFS/EC SHOW PW VALUES REACHING NEAR 2.25 INCHES...WHICH WOULD BE NEAR DAILY MAX FOR MID JUNE. DISTURBANCES ROTATING AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE HIGH TO OUR EAST WILL RESULT IN WAVES OF SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPMENT IN THIS ENVIRONMENT. EVEN THOUGH FLOW WILL BE INCREASING IT WILL GENERALLY BE UNIDIRECTIONAL AND SIMILAR IN STRENGTH...MEANING THAT CORFIDI VECTOR MAGNITUDES WILL BE SMALL... GENERALLY AOB 15 KT. HENCE COULD BE SLOW MOVING...TRAINING AND EFFICIENT SHRA/TSRA WITH SOME FLOODING ISSUES...AGAIN MAINLY IN WEST WHERE ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS ARE ALSO MORE CONCERNING FOR FLOOD ISSUES. WILL ALSO NEED TO MONITOR POTENTIAL FOR SOME GUSTY STORMS AS 850 MB FLOW IS FORECAST TO INCREASE TO 30-40 KT AT TIMES WHICH COULD RESULT IN GUSTS DUE TO MOMENTUM TRANSPORT EVEN WITH WEAKER INSTABILITY AND LAPSE RATES. AS FAR AS TEMPERATURES...GENERALLY SEASONAL TEMPS EXPECTED AND BC MOS BLEND SEEMS FINE. LONG TERM (SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...PATTERN OF FRIDAY/SATURDAY WILL GENERALLY CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY WITH LITTLE CHANGE. EXPECT HIGH POPS WITH GREATEST POPS AND THREAT FOR HEAVIER QPF IN WESTERN AREAS. NEXT EVOLUTION IN THE PATTERN COMES DURING THE EARLY TO MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK AS BERMUDA HIGH STRENGTHENS EVEN FURTHER AND BUILDS MORE TO THE W INTO ARKLAMISS. THIS WILL RESULT IN BETTER MOISTURE BEING SHUNTED MORE TO OUR WEST...HENCE AN ASSOCIATED LOWERING OF POPS WITH CONVECTION BECOMING MORE TYPICALLY DIURNAL IN NATURE. LOW LEVEL TEMPS WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO WARM...WITH 925 AND 850 MB TEMPS IN MODELS SUPPORTING MID 90S IN MANY AREAS BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. CURRENT MAX TEMP GUIDANCE FROM MODELS IS NOT QUITE THIS WARM...BUT BUMPED UP MAXES A DEG OR TWO TUE/WED...ESPECIALLY IN THE EAST WHERE RAINFALL HAS BEEN BELOW NORMAL OVER THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS THUS POSSIBLY SUPPORTING GREATER DIURNAL RANGES. LOW LEVEL TEMPS SHOULD ALSO BE WARMEST THIS AREA ALONG WITH LEAST CHANCE FOR RAINFALL CLOSER TO MID LEVEL HIGH. /AEG/ && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL FOR NEARLY ALL OF THIS TAF PERIOD. FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON THERE WILL BE SOME ISO/SCT CONVECTION OCCURRING AND WILL HAVE TO AMD SITES WHERE ACTIVITY GETS CLOSE TO. OVERNIGHT LOOK FOR A SITE OR TWO TO SEE A BRIEF PERIOD OF MVFR VIS WITH HBG HAVING SOME POTENTIAL FOR AN MVFR CEILING BY 11Z. /CME/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... JACKSON 69 89 70 86 / 21 33 27 55 MERIDIAN 68 87 69 87 / 27 37 29 53 VICKSBURG 70 90 70 87 / 17 27 23 54 HATTIESBURG 70 90 69 87 / 33 47 34 57 NATCHEZ 70 88 69 86 / 24 33 20 56 GREENVILLE 72 91 72 88 / 10 20 11 45 GREENWOOD 71 90 71 87 / 12 23 20 52 && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...NONE. LA...NONE. AR...NONE. && AEG/CME
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 1:29 PM CST, 5 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 229 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 111930- 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- 229 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY 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 TUESDAY. CME && ...HAZARD LEGEND... NO SHORT TERM HAZARDS EXPECTED. ...USEFUL WEATHER WEB PAGES (URLS)... NWS JAN HOME PAGE... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/JAN STAY AWARE, STAY SAFE NWS JAN BRIEFING PAGE... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN/?N=SAFE NWS JAN TROPICAL PAGE... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN/?N=TROPICAL NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER HOME PAGE... WWW.NHC.NOAA.GOV/ FIND NWS JAN ON FACEBOOK... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSJACKSONMS FOLLOW NWS JAN ON TWITTER... @NWSJACKSONMS PLEASE CONVERT ALL WEB ADDRESSES TO LOWER CASE BEFORE ENTERING!
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 10, 5:54 PM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
654 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0525 PM TSTM WND GST 1 S LARTO 31.36N 91.90W
06/10/2015 U0 MPH CATAHOULA LA PUBLIC
ONE TREE REPORTED DOWN NEAR ARGO.
&&
19Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:57 PM CST, 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 657 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015 MSZ043-048-049-110030- HINDS MS-MADISON MS-RANKIN MS- 657 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL RANKIN...SOUTH CENTRAL MADISON AND NORTHEASTERN HINDS COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 657 PM CDT...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER FLOWOOD...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MADISON...RIDGELAND AND GLUCKSTADT AROUND 730 PM CDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. HIGH WINDS CAN BRING DOWN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS RESULTING IN SERIOUS INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN OUTDOORS DURING SUCH STRONG WINDS...AND BE ESPECIALLY AWARE OF OLDER TREES. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && LAT...LON 3229 8998 3226 9019 3248 9030 3254 8998 TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 167DEG 7KT 3236 9011 BYB
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:06 PM CST, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
706 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015
MSZ055-110045-
SIMPSON MS-
706 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN SIMPSON COUNTY
UNTIL 745 PM CDT...
AT 706 PM CDT...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR HARRISVILLE...OR NEAR PINOLA. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
HARRISVILLE AROUND 730 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE BRAXTON AND D'LO.
LAT...LON 3189 9014 3190 9015 3204 9010 3204 8980
3184 8995
TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 196DEG 3KT 3194 9003
DBSpecial weather statement, Jun 10, 6:15 PM CST, 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 715 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015 MSZ050-110045- SCOTT MS- 715 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL SCOTT COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT... AT 715 PM CDT...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER HILLSBORO...OR OVER HARPERVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MIDWAY AROUND 720 PM CDT. FOREST AROUND 730 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3257 8948 3242 8937 3234 8956 3250 8967 TIME...MOT...LOC 0015Z 059DEG 9KT 3246 8950 DB
Local storm report, Jun 10, 6:23 PM CST, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
723 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0700 PM TSTM WND DMG NE JACKSON 32.32N 90.21W
06/10/2015 HINDS MS PUBLIC
AT THE JACKSON FUTBOL CLUB COMPLEX ON WESTBROOK ROAD, THE
TOPS WERE BLOWN OUT OF A COUPLE OF TREES. LARGE ALUMINUM
SOCCER GOALS BLOWN OVER AND TOSSED SOME 3-4 FEET.
&&
19Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:24 PM CST, 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 724 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015 MSZ056-110100- SMITH MS- 724 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN SMITH COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 724 PM CDT...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER HOMEWOOD...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF FOREST...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BURNS AROUND 755 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3222 8948 3215 8942 3204 8958 3221 8970 TIME...MOT...LOC 0024Z 059DEG 8KT 3221 8951 DB
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 170 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:55 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flood and Hail in Mississippi, June 10, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Nevada, June 10 to 14, 2015
- Flood and Hail in Illinois, June 10, 2015
- Flood in Florida, June 10, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 10 to 11, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, June 10, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 10, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 10, 2015
More
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Sources
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: 571612.