Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1998, 4:25 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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
- May 3, 1998, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Arlington, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 032125 RRA SVRJAN MSC085-032200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 425 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWEST LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 424 PM CDT... RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROOKHAVEN MOVING EAST AT 30 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! 65
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, May 3, 4:17 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
MSZ048>052-032220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 417 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1998 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 276 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI... HINDS...RANKIN...NEWTON...SCOTT AND LAUDERDALE. ALTHOUGH ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS COULD OCCUR IN THESE COUNTIES THIS EVENING...THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS SHIFTED TO THE SOUTH OF THESE COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 47 min |
| May 3, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 34 min |
| May 3, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 47 min |
| May 3, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 34 min |
| May 3, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 33 min |
| May 3, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 31 min |
| May 3, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 51 min |
| May 3, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 49 min |
| May 3, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Itawamba | 20 min |
| May 3, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 49 min |
| May 3, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 48 min |
| May 3, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 48 min |
| May 3, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 48 min |
| May 3, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin | 33 min |
| May 3, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1998Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.