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The MARCH WINNER came late on the evening of the 8th as a large Supercell
exploded over southern Jones County and moved southeastward just prior to the
midnight hour. Trees were blown down and at least 1 inch diameter hail fell
before it moved into northern Perry and Greene counties. At 1159pm CST, VILs
peaked around 56 kg/m*m while an incredible 65-75dBz tilted core extended to
around 23,000 feet. Some technical difficulties prevented us from being able to
generate our usual dataset from WATADS however the images below taken from
manually archived data are still rather convincing of this storm's intensity.
The Hail and Severe Hail algorithms performed well as seen in the Cell Attribute
Table where hail size estimates reached 4 inches and an operator-defined
Mesocyclone was observed. You might also notice that the lowest
elevation of the radar beam at this distance is scanning at about 8,700 feet
above the surface. A stronger rotational shear couplet in the Mesocyclone
developed within 25 minutes of the images below as the storm moved east of
Richton. Tornado warnings were in effect for this storm.
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A Composite Reflectivity View at 1159pm CST.
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A 4-Panel View of the Lowest 4 Reflectivity Slices
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Note: Velocities
(green-motion toward radar ; red-motion away from
radar located 74nm northwest of the storm)
A 4-Panel View of VILs(u.left), High Level Composite
>33,000 ft(u.right), 0.5 Degree Storm Relative Velocity(l.left), Echo Tops(l.right)
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