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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 445, NWS Jackson, MS

July 1, 1998Hinds County, Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT for Hinds County, Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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: Jul 1, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hinds County, MS, Rankin County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 1, 6:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Jackson, MS	Power lines were blown down near Terry and Mcdowell roads.

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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 12 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: 2507 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 012315 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC049-121-020005-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
615 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 705 PM CDT

* AT 614 PM CDT... RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ALONG THE PEARL RIVER BETWEEN HINDS AND &RANKIN COUNTIES. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AND WILL AFFECT THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF
JACKSON BEFORE 630 PM.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

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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

Local storm report, Jul 1, 2:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
254 PM CDT WED JUL 01 1998

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

0225 PM    2 NE PETAL                MS   .88 INCH HAIL
07/01/98   FORREST                        REPORTED BY EOC

0246 PM    BASSFIELD                 MS   1 INCH HAIL
07/01/98   JEFFERSON DAVIS                REPORTED BY POLICE DEPT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	35 min
Jul 1, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	34 min
Jul 1, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Washington	48 min
Jul 1, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sunflower	49 min
Jul 1, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	33 min
Jul 1, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	49 min
Jul 1, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	48 min
Jul 1, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	49 min
Jul 1, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.