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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 297, NWS Jackson, MS

June 5, 1998Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 10:34 AM CDT for Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 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: Jun 5, 1998, 10:34 AM CDT (15:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1998, 11:20 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Morehouse Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 10:55 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, LA	Numerous trees were blown down throughout the parrish.

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
Jun 5, 10:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 1507 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 490 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 567 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 16.5

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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, Jun 5, 4:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
539 AM CDT FRI JUN 05 1998

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

0153 AM    HAMBURG                   AR   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   ASHLEY                         TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
                                          NEAR CLARKDALE AND
                                          INTERSECTION AT HWY 425/82

0210 AM    SHELBY                    MS   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   BOLIVAR                        TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT
                                          COUNTY

0220 AM    CLEVELAND                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   BOLIVAR                        TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY EOC
0225 AM    MER ROUGE                 LA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   MOREHOUSE                      TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT
                                          PARISH

0230 AM    DREW                      MS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/05/98   SUNFLOWER                      GUST REPORTED BY INDIANOLA
                                          SO

0310 AM    GRENADA                   MS   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   GRENADA                        TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT
                                          COUNTY REPORTED BY SO

0330 AM    TRANSYLVANIA              LA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   EAST CARROLL                   TREES DOWN IN TRANSYLVANIA

0217 AM    GREENVILLE                MS   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/05/98   WASHINGTON                     GUST RECORDED AT WXVT-TV
                                          STATION

0245 AM    FOREST                    LA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   WEST CARROLL                   TREES DOWN BETWEEN FOREST
                                          AND PIONEER

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
539 AM CDT FRI JUN 05 1998

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

0153 AM    HAMBURG                   AR   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   ASHLEY                         TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
                                          NEAR CLARKDALE AND
                                          INTERSECTION AT HWY 425/82

0210 AM    SHELBY                    MS   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   BOLIVAR                        TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT
                                          COUNTY

0220 AM    CLEVELAND                 MS   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   BOLIVAR                        TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY EOC
0225 AM    MER ROUGE                 LA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   MOREHOUSE                      TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT
                                          PARISH

0230 AM    DREW                      MS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/05/98   SUNFLOWER                      GUST REPORTED BY INDIANOLA
                                          SO

0310 AM    GRENADA                   MS   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   GRENADA                        TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT
                                          COUNTY REPORTED BY SO

0330 AM    TRANSYLVANIA              LA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   EAST CARROLL                   TREES DOWN IN TRANSYLVANIA

0217 AM    GREENVILLE                MS   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/05/98   WASHINGTON                     GUST RECORDED AT WXVT-TV
                                          STATION

0245 AM    FOREST                    LA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/98   WEST CARROLL                   TREES DOWN BETWEEN FOREST
                                          AND PIONEER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	45 min
Jun 5, 2:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	51 min
Jun 5, 2:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada, Leflore	48 min
Jun 5, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	50 min
Jun 5, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sharkey	50 min
Jun 5, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	49 min
Jun 5, 11:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	50 min
Jun 5, 11:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	46 min
Jun 5, 11:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	50 min
Jun 5, 12:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Claiborne, Jefferson	47 min
Jun 5, 12:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	50 min
Jun 5, 12:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	47 min
Jun 5, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	48 min
Jun 5, 12:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	64 min
Jun 5, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	48 min
Jun 5, 12:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	50 min
Jun 5, 12:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	36 min
Jun 5, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	52 min
Jun 5, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	49 min
Jun 5, 12:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	49 min
Jun 5, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	47 min
Jun 5, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	50 min
Jun 5, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	48 min
Jun 5, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	49 min
Jun 5, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Winston	46 min
Jun 5, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	46 min
Jun 5, 1:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	47 min
Jun 5, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	47 min
Jun 5, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	46 min
Jun 5, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	47 min
Jun 5, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	46 min
Jun 5, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	47 min
Jun 5, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	48 min
Jun 5, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	47 min
Jun 5, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	36 min
Jun 5, 2:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	48 min
Jun 5, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	West Carroll	50 min
Jun 5, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Richland	50 min
Jun 5, 11:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	49 min
Jun 5, 11:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	West Carroll	49 min
Jun 5, 11:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	51 min
Jun 5, 11:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	48 min
Jun 5, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	47 min
Jun 5, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Concordia	51 min
Jun 5, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	51 min
Jun 5, 11:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	49 min

Nearby

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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.