Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1998, 6:29 PM CDT for Sharkey County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 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
- May 26, 1998, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1998, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sharkey County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1543 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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, May 26, 1:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-270400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 132 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1998 SOUTHERLY FLOW CONTINUES TO TRANSPORT WARM AND MOIST AIR ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE TO THE NORTH OF A STARKVILLE TO KOSCIUSKO TO YAZOO CITY TO WINNSBORO LOUISIANA LINE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS OR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE AT HTTP://WWW.JANNWS.STATE.MS.US /IN LOWER CASE/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Washington | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 25 min |
| May 26, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 48 min |
| May 26, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 48 min |
| May 26, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.