The combination of a moist air mass and daytime heating helped generate showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours. Some of these storms produced gusty winds and flash flooding.
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The episode as NWS JAN wrote it up.
The combination of a moist air mass and daytime heating helped generate showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours. Some of these storms produced gusty winds and flash flooding.
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 14, 9:59 AM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Jackson MS 1059 AM CDT SUN AUG 14 2016 .UPDATE...Have opted to cancel the Falsh Flood Watch for our southwest zones today. Surface and weakened mid level low was noted over southwest Arkansas. The resulting deep southerly flow will continue over our CWA and will maintain extensive cloud cover over the western half of our area. This has limited insolation this morning and will limit instability through the afternoon. Although rainfall is likely this afternoon, rates and amounts should not be enough to contribute to flash flooding. Heaviest rainfall rates are expected to occur over the eastern half of our Mississippi zones where a few breaks in the clouds will allow for greater instability. Morning cloud cover has led to a slower warmup over much of our CWA but visible satellite imagery shows breaks in the clouds that will allow temperatures to achieve forecasted highs. /22/ && .AVIATION...MVFR flight categories will again prevail for much of the day due to ceilings remaining below 3000 feet across much of the area. Ceilings should improve later this evening over locations along and east of the Interstate 55 corridor, with VFR categories possible at most TAF sites, except KGLH and KGWO, overnight. Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms will remain possible throughout the morning and afternoon hours. Any convection observed on station could result in a brief degradation to IFR visibilities and/or ceilings. Winds today will be southerly between 10-15 knots, gusting up around 20 knots at times. Winds will again subside to between 5 knots this evening, and remain such overnight. /19/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 512 AM CDT SUN AUG 14 2016/ DISCUSSION...Today through Monday night, The threat for flash flooding continues to be a concern over extreme southwest portions of the area where storm total rainfall is now exceeding 10 inches in some locations. Per coordination with SHV/LIX, have opted to keep the flash flood watch going today as it looks like one more round of potential heavy rain may affect the area in association with a weakening mid level low center now moving into Arkansas. Southerly low level flow of ~ 35 knots on the east side of the low is transporting very moist air (Precipitable Water near 2.5 inches) northward along the Mississippi River, and this is helping to maintain a healthy and persistent band of rain. Rainfall rates haven't been extraordinary, especially by summer standards, but the continued soaking will keep the moisture primed for rapid runoff should heavier rainfall materialize later this morning. A deterrent to heavier rainfall in our area has been the semi-permanent area of convection along the LA coast, but convection isn't quite as robust this morning, and this along with increasing influence from the westerlies will allow a greater threat for significant rainfall over at least western portions of the forecast area. To the east of the Mississippi River, over central/eastern MS, a dominant mid level high is keeping the atmosphere drier (relatively speaking), and this is resulting in a fairly sharp west-east gradient in the deep layer moisture. With daytime heating, recent HRRR runs are pretty consistent showing a developing convective band that would move east of the current rain area. While a similar model scenario progged yesterday didn't pan out, there is a better chance for it to happen today due to reasons stated previously. As we go into the early week, the westerlies will continue to play a more prominent role in maintaining a wet weather pattern, but a fairly tight west to east gradient of rain chances and QPF will continue. /EC/ Tuesday through Saturday, On Tuesday, we will have an upper ridge weakness over the Central and Southern Plains which will be associated with a stationary surface boundary. This feature will help to lift the old mid level low into the westerlies. A series of disturbances will push through the westerlies with some of the energy dipping into the Southern Plains and into the Lower Mississippi Valley. Meanwhile the Bermuda High will be centered over the Southeast Atlantic coast,which will help to push a very moist airmass (2 plus inches pwats) in southerly flow. The surface boundary will dissipate by Wednesday. As we push into the weekend models converge on an upper trough which will become flat across into the region from the north. Another surface boundary will push toward the region. Otherwise models and their ensembles shows a rather wet pattern through the period. This will help to develop good chances of showers and thunderstorms through the period. Could see some locally heavy downpours. Models show that the best QPF values will be along and west of MS River. As far as temps are concerned - rain chances will keep temps below normal with highs in the 80s. Lows will be mainly in the lower 70s. Looking into early next week the wet pattern will continue. /17/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Jackson 87 73 89 73 / 63 26 42 33 Meridian 90 73 90 73 / 30 20 40 23 Vicksburg 85 73 89 74 / 67 35 45 38 Hattiesburg 88 74 89 74 / 61 20 45 33 Natchez 84 73 87 74 / 68 36 50 38 Greenville 85 73 88 74 / 67 41 45 48 Greenwood 88 73 89 73 / 54 33 33 35 && .JAN Watches/Warnings/Advisories... MS...None. LA...None. AR...None. && 22/19/EC/17
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1035 AM CDT SUN AUG 14 2016 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 141930- 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- 1035 AM CDT SUN AUG 14 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ENTIRE ARKLAMISS REGION. .DAY ONE...THE REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... 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 SATURDAY. 19 && ...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!
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:15 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was blown down on Longview Road near Longview.
A tree and power line was blown down west of Noxapater on Highway 395.
A tree was blown down on Artesia Road southwest of Columbus near Steel Dynamics.
Street flooding occurred around Greenville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, August 2016
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: 648596, 648599, 648614, 656070.