Hail — Sunflower, Mississippi

2022-10-12 · near Lombardy, Sunflower, Mississippi

Event narrative

A severe thunderstorm moved across the county, producing a swath of hail. Hail up to 1.25 inches fell around Parchman.

Wider weather episode

On the afternoon of October 12th, warm and moist air was in place ahead of a potent cold front. Isolated to scattered showers and storms developed in the open warm sector ahead of the front. In the presence of limited low level shear but adequate deep layer shear, some storms took on supercellular characteristics with large hail and damaging winds closer to the cold front and brought an additional round of strong, damaging winds into the overnight.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1056241. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.