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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Jackson, MS

March 31, 1998Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1998, 6:26 PM CST for Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 1998, 6:26 PM CST (00:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 1998, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Jones County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 31, 6:35 PM CST	Hail 1	Laurel, MS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 483 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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

Local storm report, Mar 31, 2:50 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
250 PM CST TUE MAR 31 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0115 PM    11 E CRYSTAL SPGS         MS   .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/98   SIMPSON

0125 PM    4 S MORTON                MS   WIND DAMAGE
03/31/98   SCOTT                          TREES DOWN

0215 PM    5 NE NEWTON               MS   WIND DAMAGE
03/31/98   NEWTON                         TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN

Local storm report, Mar 31, 2:50 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
250 PM CST TUE MAR 31 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0115 PM    11 E CRYSTAL SPGS         MS   .75 INCH HAIL
03/31/98   SIMPSON

0125 PM    4 S MORTON                MS   WIND DAMAGE
03/31/98   SCOTT                          TREES DOWN

0215 PM    5 NE NEWTON               MS   WIND DAMAGE
03/31/98   NEWTON                         TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN

Local storm report, Mar 31, 5:01 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.