A moist unstable atmosphere allowed for the development of some showers and thunderstorms. Some of these storms produced damaging wind gusts and flash flooding.
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The episode as NWS JAN wrote it up.
A moist unstable atmosphere allowed for the development of some showers and thunderstorms. Some of these storms produced damaging wind gusts 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 May 30, 2:27 PM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Jackson MS 327 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016 .DISCUSSION...Convection is a bit more prevalent, though still just isolated, across the area this afternoon. Fortunately most Memorial Day barbecues remain uninterrupted by Mother Nature. Temps have again soared into the 90s almost areawide, with some mid 90s noted across East MS. Heading into the work week, the surface ridge, which has provided generally nice weather over the holiday weekend, will weaken as upper troughing builds over the central part of the country heading through the week. This will slowly drag a cold front toward the region by the end of the week into the weekend. In the mean time, isolated/scattered afternoon convection will fester into the early evening. Though the local microburst checklist gave low potential for damaging wind today, instability is sufficient for a few strong storms. This potential is not expected to be widespread enough to warrant mention in the HWO. On Tuesday, convection will again be largely diurnal in nature, with somewhat greater POP in the western part of the area (closer to influence from upstream subtropical jet max) and in the SE part of the area (where the seabreeze may come into play). Again, there will be some potential for strong storms, but we will hold off on any HWO mention until there is a clearer signal for severe potential in a specific area. Wednesday, the upper trough will shift eastward toward the Midwest and Great Lakes, with an increase in precip ahead of the surface front anticipated from the ArkLaTex through the Mid MS Valley. Aside from the diurnal convection we have seen over the past few days, activity more directly related to the front may begin to brush the Delta beginning Wednesday, and thus POPs will be on an upward trend in that area continuing into Thursday. Temperatures will continue to be above average over the next few days, though increasing interference from clouds/precip should begin to curtail some of the mid 90s we have seen this weekend. /DL/ Long Term (Wednesday through Saturday Night)...Models are in agreement that the cold front will stall just northwest of our CWA Thursday while the southern stream low moves over the Southern Plains. The closer proximity of the low and stalled cold front will lead to greater rain chances Thursday with the greatest rain chances over our northwest zones. The increased rain chances and associated cloud cover will limit insolation and result in cooler afternoon highs. The ECMWF and GFS differ on how far south the closed low will be with the GFS being farther south and over southern Texas Friday and the ECMWF being over northeast Texas. The closed low is expected to linger over Texas through the weekend while a second northern stream closed low deepens a large upper level trough over the eastern CONUS a second cold front looks to drop into our CWA Sunday. The ECMWF is slower to dissipate the southern low and maintains greater rain chances over our region through Monday while the GFS is drier, moving the cold front south of our CWA by Monday afternoon. Cooler than normal afternoon highs are expected Friday through Monday but morning lows will continue at or above normal through the period. /22/ && .AVIATION...At mid afternoon cu field was noted across the region with a base of around 6kft with high thin clouds overhead. Isolated thunderstorms was noted across NE LA, SW MS. Isolated thunderstorms will be possible this afternoon into this evening, but mainly over GLH/GWO TAF sites. Finally, expect light winds through today, mainly from the north. A few patches of MVFR fog will be possible late tonight through 8 am Tuesday. /17/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Jackson 68 92 70 90 / 15 25 20 19 Meridian 66 94 67 91 / 9 25 18 21 Vicksburg 69 91 70 91 / 20 25 16 19 Hattiesburg 68 95 70 92 / 13 26 17 16 Natchez 68 90 68 88 / 19 21 12 16 Greenville 68 90 69 88 / 22 32 21 30 Greenwood 67 91 69 90 / 17 30 22 29 && .JAN Watches/Warnings/Advisories... MS...None. LA...None. AR...None. && DL/17/22
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 156 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 311900- 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- 156 PM CDT MON MAY 30 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 TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY 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 SUNDAY. 21 && ...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!
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
314 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016
MSZ034-040-041-302045-
SHARKEY MS-ISSAQUENA MS-WASHINGTON MS-
314 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...
NORTHWESTERN SHARKEY AND NORTH CENTRAL ISSAQUENA COUNTIES UNTIL 345
PM CDT...
AT 314 PM CDT...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR GRACE...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROLLING FORK. THIS STORM WAS
NEARLY STATIONARY.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
GLEN ALLAN AND GRACE AROUND 345 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 3310 9103 3300 9084 3287 9096 3292 9107
3293 9106 3295 9108 3296 9108 3298 9109
TIME...MOT...LOC 2014Z 192DEG 4KT 3296 9102
10SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
418 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016
MSZ059-060-302145-
ADAMS MS-JEFFERSON MS-
418 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN ADAMS AND
SOUTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM CDT...
AT 418 PM CDT...METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER STANTON...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF NATCHEZ...MOVING NORTH AT 10
MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CHURCH HILL AROUND 445 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
&&
LAT...LON 3175 9131 3175 9127 3176 9126 3170 9111
3155 9122 3161 9136
TIME...MOT...LOC 2118Z 192DEG 9KT 3162 9128
10The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:29 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees and limbs were blown down across the town. One tree fell on a home.
A few trees were blown down on Flynt Road west of town.
Multiple streets were flooded across Laurel due to heavy rain.
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: 627225, 627227, 627230.