Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1998, 9:20 AM CST for Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 25 min. 2 reports 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
- Feb 26, 1998, 9:20 AM CST (15:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1998, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Catahoula Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 9:30 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Archie, LA | Two mobile homes were overturned. Two injuries occurred in one of the mobile homes. Many trees were blown down. |
| Feb 26, 9:30 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Jonesville, LA | A rodeo arena was destroyed. A church was blown off of its foundation. An eighteen-wheeler was blown 150 feet off the highway. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Feb 26, 5:00 AM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-261700- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 500 AM CST THU FEB 26 1998 THE FIRST ROUND OF CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH A WELL ORGANIZED STORM SYSTEM TO THE NORTHWEST WILL APPROACH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER THIS MORNING. ALTHOUGH THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN...MORE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED LATER TODAY. THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WAS FROM CENTRAL OKLAHOMA SOUTHWARD TO CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING. THE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL HAVE AMPLE TIME LATER TODAY TO BECOME MORE UNSTABLE AND PRODUCE MORE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER STILL EXISTS ACROSS SOUTH ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI THROUGHOUT TODAY. PEOPLE ACROSS THE AREA SHOULD KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION TODAY. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL PROBABLY BE NEEDED FOR SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION TODAY.
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 5:00 AM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-261700- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 500 AM CST THU FEB 26 1998 THE FIRST ROUND OF CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH A WELL ORGANIZED STORM SYSTEM TO THE NORTHWEST WILL APPROACH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER THIS MORNING. ALTHOUGH THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN...MORE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED LATER TODAY. THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WAS FROM CENTRAL OKLAHOMA SOUTHWARD TO CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING. THE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL HAVE AMPLE TIME LATER TODAY TO BECOME MORE UNSTABLE AND PRODUCE MORE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER STILL EXISTS ACROSS SOUTH ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI THROUGHOUT TODAY. PEOPLE ACROSS THE AREA SHOULD KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION TODAY. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL PROBABLY BE NEEDED FOR SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 9:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 38 min |
| Feb 26, 10:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 52 min |
| Feb 26, 10:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 44 min |
| Feb 26, 10:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Warren | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 10:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 10:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 31 min |
| Feb 26, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 41 min |
| Feb 26, 11:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin, Yazoo | 36 min |
| Feb 26, 11:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Simpson | 36 min |
| Feb 26, 11:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 39 min |
| Feb 26, 11:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 33 min |
| Feb 26, 11:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 27 min |
| Feb 26, 12:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton, Smith | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 12:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 12:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 39 min |
| Feb 26, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee, Winston | 43 min |
| Feb 26, 1:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale, Newton | 58 min |
| Feb 26, 1:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 32 min |
| Feb 26, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 30 min |
| Feb 26, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 50 min |
| Feb 26, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 15 min |
| Feb 26, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 41 min |
| Feb 26, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 3:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 28 min |
| Feb 26, 3:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 53 min |
| Feb 26, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 4:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 53 min |
| Feb 26, 10:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Richland | 52 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.