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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Jackson, MS

April 28, 1998Adams County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1998, 12:20 AM CDT for Adams County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 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: Apr 28, 1998, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 1998, 1:05 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Adams County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 28, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 1003 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 280520 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC001-280605-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1220 AM CDT TUE APR 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 105 AM CDT

* AT 1219 AM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  NATCHEZ... INDICATED BY JACKSON WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND RURAL AREAS.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

72

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD jMOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, Apr 27, 11:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1118 PM CDT MON APR 27 1998

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

0345 PM    EUPORA                    MS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   WEBSTER                        2S EUPORA DIME SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY MISS HIGHWAY
                                          PATROL

0650 PM    SCOTT                     MS   2.75 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   BOLIVAR                        BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED 1 MILE NORTH OF
                                          SCOTT BY BOLIVAR SHERIFF

0715 PM    SHAW                      MS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   BOLIVAR                        DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          NEAR SHAW BY BOLIVAR
                                          SHERIFF

0755 PM    RULEVILLE                 MS   1.25 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   SUNFLOWER                      HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED AT RULEVILLE BY
                                          SUNFLOWER SHERIFF

0910 PM    RULEVILLE                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
04/27/98   SUNFLOWER                      QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND
                                          SEVERAL TREES REPORTED
                                          DOWN AND PORCH BLOWN OFF
                                          MOBILE HOME NEAR RULEVILLE
                                          REPORTED BY SUNFLOWER
                                          SHERIFF

0945 PM    HARRISONBURG              LA   .5 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   CATAHOULA                      QUITE A BIT OF MARBLE SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTED IN
                                          HARRISONBURG BY CATAHOULA
                                          PARISH SHERIFF

1045 PM    GILBERT                   LA   1 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   FRANKLIN                       NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL COVERED THE GROUND 7E
                                          GILBERT REPORTED BY
                                          FRANKLIN PARISH SHERIFF

Local storm report, Apr 27, 11:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1118 PM CDT MON APR 27 1998

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

0345 PM    EUPORA                    MS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   WEBSTER                        2S EUPORA DIME SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY MISS HIGHWAY
                                          PATROL

0650 PM    SCOTT                     MS   2.75 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   BOLIVAR                        BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED 1 MILE NORTH OF
                                          SCOTT BY BOLIVAR SHERIFF

0715 PM    SHAW                      MS   .75 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   BOLIVAR                        DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          NEAR SHAW BY BOLIVAR
                                          SHERIFF

0755 PM    RULEVILLE                 MS   1.25 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   SUNFLOWER                      HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED AT RULEVILLE BY
                                          SUNFLOWER SHERIFF

0910 PM    RULEVILLE                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
04/27/98   SUNFLOWER                      QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND
                                          SEVERAL TREES REPORTED
                                          DOWN AND PORCH BLOWN OFF
                                          MOBILE HOME NEAR RULEVILLE
                                          REPORTED BY SUNFLOWER
                                          SHERIFF

0945 PM    HARRISONBURG              LA   .5 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   CATAHOULA                      QUITE A BIT OF MARBLE SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTED IN
                                          HARRISONBURG BY CATAHOULA
                                          PARISH SHERIFF

1045 PM    GILBERT                   LA   1 INCH HAIL
04/27/98   FRANKLIN                       NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL COVERED THE GROUND 7E
                                          GILBERT REPORTED BY
                                          FRANKLIN PARISH SHERIFF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	47 min
Apr 27, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower	33 min
Apr 27, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	48 min
Apr 28, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	45 min
Apr 28, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	46 min
Apr 28, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	48 min
Apr 28, 1:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	34 min
Apr 28, 1:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	35 min
Apr 28, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	34 min
Apr 28, 3:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	46 min
Apr 28, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	51 min
Apr 28, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.