During the overnight hours of July 8th into the morning of the 9th, the remnants of Beryl moved across the northwest parts of the area. A brief tornado touched down in NE Holmes County and damaged some timber.
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The episode as NWS JAN wrote it up.
During the overnight hours of July 8th into the morning of the 9th, the remnants of Beryl moved across the northwest parts of the area. A brief tornado touched down in NE Holmes County and damaged some timber.
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 Jul 9, 3:30 AM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Jackson MS 430 AM CDT Tue Jul 9 2024 ...New DISCUSSION... .DISCUSSION... Issued at 428 AM CDT Tue Jul 9 2024 Today through Tonight: The remnants of TC Beryl embedded within a mid-level trough across the Mid Mississippi River Valley will be the main weather influence today as the system continues to track northward. Currently bands of precip have moved across the MS river as it continues its track eastward across the area. These bands don't have much associated precip with the north south orientation and it being a generally fast moving system with strong gradient winds associated. Expect area wide pop chances with between 0.10- 0.25in of accumulated rainfall with possibilities for locally higher amounts throughout the day. Behind the intial band of showers will be a dry slot as relatively dry air wraps around TC Beryl clearing convective potential from west to east throughout the day. A limited wind threat will continue through this afternoon for portions of northeast LA, southeast AR and northwest MS as wind gusts in the 30 to 40 mph range will be possible, which could result in downed limbs or even weak trees. As to heat potential, the limited threat has been removed from the graphical HWO. Strong gradient winds, increased cloud cover and precip will combine to limit heating across the CWA. Heat indices will struggle to reach heat thresholds of 105 degrees and if achieved won't be prolonged for more than an hour or two. /KP/ Wednesday through Monday: Come Wednesday morning the remnants of Beryl will be well to our northeast and a drier airmass along with lower heights will be over most of our CWA. The exception will be our southeast where a stalled boundary along with PWATs in excess of two inches will still reside. This moisture will lead to a low chance of showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon. Most sites will top out in the lower 90s which is near normal. The drier airmass and near normal highs will result in peak heat index values below 105F so wl see a little reprieve from the recent heat wave. Upper level troughing will swing east across the region Thursday into Friday while a surface high centered north of our CWA shifts east as well. This will serve to limit return moisture and keep the low chance for afternoon convection limited to our southern zones. Friday through the weekend the stout mid level ridge to our west will gradually spread east while surface ridging reestablishes itself along the Gulf coast from the east. A warming trend with gradually increasing deep moisture will be the result. This will lead to a greater coverage of diurnally driven convection but also higher peak index values. A Heat Advisory at least for the western portions of the CWA is likely again by Sunday. This Heat Advisory will likely be expanded Monday. /22/ && .AVIATION... (06Z TAFS) Issued at 106 AM CDT Tue Jul 9 2024 VFR conditions will prevail through around 10Z at most sites with the exception of HEZ which has observed isolated -SHRA/VCTS. After 10Z isolated to scattered SHRA/VCTS will be possible at most sites as remnant TS Beryl activity moves east. Winds will generally be out of the south west with gusts of around 25KTS possible. Sites will possible drop in category to MVFR && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Jackson 90 70 91 71 / 60 10 10 0 Meridian 93 70 92 70 / 60 20 10 0 Vicksburg 88 70 91 70 / 20 0 0 0 Hattiesburg 92 74 93 72 / 70 30 20 10 Natchez 89 71 91 71 / 20 0 10 0 Greenville 85 69 90 70 / 20 10 0 0 Greenwood 89 68 90 69 / 50 10 10 0 && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...None. LA...None. AR...None. && KP/22/KP
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:07 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
This brief tornado touched down near County Line Road and Race Track Road. Several trees were uprooted along with large limbs broken along the short path. A tornadic debris signature (TDS) was also noted on radar.
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