Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 474, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1998, 6:31 PM CDT for Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 10, 1998, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Smith County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1798 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
576 WUUS1 KJAN 102330 RRA SVRJAN MSC129-110005- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 631 PM CDT FRI JUL 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SMITH COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 705 PM CDT * AT 630 PM CDT... RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF RALEIGH OR IN THE VICINITY OF MIZE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND RURAL AREAS. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS 76
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 10, 2:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
230 PM CDT FRI JUL 10 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0345 PM STARKVILLE MS WIND DAMAGE
07/09/98 OKTIBBEHA MSU STUDENTS REPORT TREES
DOWN ACROSS HWY 82.
0430 PM GRENADA MS WIND DAMAGE
07/09/98 GRENADA EOC REPORTS ROOF BLOWN OFF
SHED AT A LUMBER COMPANY
AND CARS MOVED AROUND AT A
DEALERSHIP.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 33 min |
| Jul 10, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 34 min |
| Jul 10, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 34 min |
| Jul 10, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 36 min |
| Jul 10, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 45 min |
| Jul 10, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Leflore | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1998Every 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.