Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 12, 1998, 4:21 AM CST for Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 54 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
- Jan 12, 1998, 4:21 AM CST (10:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 1998, 5:15 AM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jones County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
155 WUUS1 KJAN 121024 SVRJAN MSC067-121115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 421 AM CST MON JAN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...JONES COUNTY AT 420 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SIX MILES NORTHWEST OF MOSELLE. IT WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF LAURAL AND THE SURROUNDING RURAL AREAS BY 435 AM. SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. < &
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, Jan 11, 11:40 PM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-120630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1140 PM CST SUN JAN 11 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 13 HAS BEEN CANCELLED... RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE OVERSPREAD THE AREA BRINGING THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO AN END. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE IN THE ARKLAMS REGION THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS DIMINISHING BY DAYBREAK. FOR MORE INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.JANNWS.STATE.MS.US
Special weather statement, Jan 11, 11:40 PM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-120630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1140 PM CST SUN JAN 11 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 13 HAS BEEN CANCELLED... RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE OVERSPREAD THE AREA BRINGING THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO AN END. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE IN THE ARKLAMS REGION THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS DIMINISHING BY DAYBREAK. FOR MORE INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.JANNWS.STATE.MS.US
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.