Showers and storms developed across portions of the area. Some of these storms produced damaging wind gusts and quarter sized hail.
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The episode as NWS JAN wrote it up.
Showers and storms developed across portions of the area. Some of these storms produced damaging wind gusts and quarter sized hail.
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 May 19, 10:13 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Jackson MS 1113 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2016 .UPDATE...Did a quick update to include mention of severe storms tonight over our three southeast most counties. the mcs over southern Louisiana will continue to track east northeast and a few storms capable of damaging wind gusts may spread across the southern portions of Marion, Lamar and Forest counties during the next few hours. This complex will be east of our cwa before sunrise. /22/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 921 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2016/ UPDATE...have lowered pops significantly and removed thunder tonight across the northern half of the cwa. An mcs moving east across southern Louisiana this evening will limit any deep moisture return and the stalled frontal boundary looks to remain south of our cwa. Instability and the greatest chance for rain will occur along and south of hwy 84. Light rain will remain possible over our northern half tonight as a shortwave nearing the Arklatex region shifts east but water vapor imagery also shows drier air spreading east in its wake that wl limit convection early Friday morning. QPF amounts tonight across the northern half of the area were lowered with the evening update as well. /22/ AVIATION...VFR conditions were still being observed areawide at 02z and wl continue at most taf sites until after 09z. The exception wl be at HBG where the tsra activity wl result in lower flight categories by 05z. Tsra activity now looks to remain confined to the south tonight. Elsewhere...MVFR/IFR cigs wl likely develop after 09z and continue through 15z Fri. MVFR conds with scattered TSRA activity wl develop Fri then shift east Fri evening. VFR conds are expected to return Fri evening. /22/ PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 420 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2016/ DISCUSSION...All day we have been watching showers and thunderstorms edge closer to the region from the west, out of eastern Texas. The latest trend is focusing by far the most intense convection on a path into the northwestern Gulf of Mexico after just moving off of the southeastern Texas coast. This trend, while not forecast terribly well by the consensus of short range models, is not surprising considering the surface front (separating marginally unstably inland air from the juicy and definitely unstable Gulf air mass) lies roughly along and parallel to the Gulf Coast. The potential for a large thunderstorm complex moving east in the vicinity of the Gulf Coast raises the prospect for precip potential getting compromised somewhat inland in our region as Gulf moisture transport gets effectively cut off. For this reason I did not go over 80 PoPs through tomorrow, but kept rain chances fairly high in many areas since the atmosphere should still be able to squeeze out some showers and embedded thunderstorms in our region considering the non-negligible short wave which will be moving overhead and working with a bit of (mainly elevated) instability. Needless to say (especially considering words expressed thus far) the potential for severe weather in our region is not nearly high enough to consider adding anything in the HWO or graphics at this time. Certainly a few strong storms cannot be ruled out later tonight and again through tomorrow, mainly in southern zones, where a cell producing brief gusty winds and maybe some small hail is not impossible. Best guess is that a wave of showers and embedded thunderstorms will move across the region tonight and clear out early tomorrow, although the main cold front will still have until tomorrow night to swing well into the region from the northwest. This incoming front should trigger some additional showers and thunderstorms, especially along and southeast of the Natchez Trace Corridor, midday through early evening tomorrow. Once again, no severe weather is anticipated with this activity although a strong storm cannot be ruled out. By late tomorrow evening conditions should be drying out although at least patchy fog is possible late Friday night in southeastern Mississippi. This weekend still looks to be quite nice for late May standards although the afternoon will be a bit warm across areas especially south of I-20. Forecast high temps were adjusted toward the higher end of the guidance envelope over this time frame and through the first few days of next week as models continue a subtle trend of focusing the coolest air in the wake of the cold front well to our northeast. Otherwise, the forecast into the middle of next week only received quite minor tweaks from the previous forecast with rain chances gradually increasing again, particularly over northern zones, before the end of the long term period. The relevant portion of the prior forecast discussion is attached below. /BB/ PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 355 AM CDT THU MAY 19 2016/ Long Term (Tuesday and Wednesday): The pattern will begin to change by the middle of the week as an upper trough carves out over the western US and the subtropical jet gets in on the act, extending northward into TX and LA. This will result in falling surface pressures and increased storminess across the Plains - with some activity possibly reaching into the MS Valley by Tuesday and Wednesday (though there remain discrepancies in model solutions with respect to timing/location specifics). Forcing mechanisms aside, there will be a gradual uptick in low level moisture/instability each day which could contribute to increasing diurnal rain chances. For now isolated/scattered POPs have been introduced from west to east Tuesday into Wednesday. Further refinements will be made as this time frame comes into better focus. /DL/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Jackson 66 81 62 84 / 59 74 15 3 Meridian 66 79 62 83 / 43 81 24 4 Vicksburg 66 82 62 84 / 67 61 10 1 Hattiesburg 69 82 64 87 / 80 83 24 5 Natchez 66 83 62 83 / 77 59 14 3 Greenville 63 79 60 82 / 24 48 9 1 Greenwood 62 79 60 82 / 24 69 10 2 && .JAN Watches/Warnings/Advisories... MS...None. LA...None. AR...None. && BB/DL
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 212 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2016 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 201915- 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- 212 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .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. 26 && ...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 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 Mobile radar (KMOB), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:48 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 strong wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was down on Ruger Road near Old Rifle Range Road.
A tree fell across Highway 49 in Flora and blocked portions of the road. The tree fell as a car and a truck were passing by and serious damage was done to the truck.
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, May 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: 626729, 626757, 626728.