Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1998, 7:42 AM CST for Franklin Parish, Richland Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1998, 7:42 AM CST (13:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1998, 8:30 AM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 6:40 AM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072>
074-080400-
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
640 AM CST FRI MAR 6 1998
A STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE LOWER
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY EXTENDING FROM THE NORTHWEST GULF OF MEXICO NORTHEAST
THROUGH THE JACKSON AND COLUMBUS AREAS EARLY THIS MORNING. THE AIR MASS SOUTH
OF THE FRONT IS VERY UNSTABLE AND SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE
OVER THE AREA TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
EARLY THIS MORNING HAVE PRODUCED HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER MISSISSIPPI THROUGH TONIGHT.
ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND PUBLIC SAFETY
OFFICIALS WILL BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT:
HTTP://WWW.JANNWS.STATE.MS.US (IN SMALL CASE LETTERS)The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 10:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 51 min |
| Mar 6, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 55 min |
| Mar 7, 12:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 3:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 51 min |
| Mar 7, 3:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 53 min |
| Mar 7, 4:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 4:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 4:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 4:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 4:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 54 min |
| Mar 7, 5:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Simpson | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 5:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 5:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 5:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Mar 7, 6:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 6:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 6:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 7:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 7:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 52 min |
| Mar 7, 7:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 24 min |
| Mar 7, 10:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 11:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 12:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 12:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Mar 7, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 26 min |
| Mar 7, 12:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 5:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 51 min |
| Mar 7, 6:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Madison | 53 min |
| Mar 7, 6:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 11:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 11:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 12:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Concordia | 39 min |
| Mar 7, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Concordia | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 12:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 42 min |
| Mar 7, 8:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 40 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.