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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Jackson, MS

May 29, 1998Madison Parish, Tensas Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 12:37 PM CDT for Madison Parish, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 33 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 29, 1998, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1998, 1:10 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Madison Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 263 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: 2463 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 29, 10:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 10:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 29, 11:58 AM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 29, 11:58 AM CDT, 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	32 min
May 28, 7:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Yazoo	2 hr
May 28, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	48 min
May 28, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	52 min
May 28, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	50 min
May 28, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	47 min
May 28, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	51 min
May 28, 7:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Humphreys	2 hr
May 28, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah	48 min
May 28, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	49 min
May 28, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	47 min
May 28, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	49 min
May 28, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	47 min
May 28, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	48 min
May 28, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	48 min
May 28, 8:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Leflore	118 min
May 28, 8:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Montgomery	118 min
May 28, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	51 min
May 28, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	49 min
May 28, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	48 min
May 28, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	49 min
May 28, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	49 min
May 28, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	50 min
May 28, 10:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	34 min
May 29, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	50 min
May 29, 3:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Attala	89 min
May 29, 4:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	92 min
May 29, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	48 min
May 29, 4:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	33 min
May 29, 5:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Chicot	92 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 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.