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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 488, NWS Jackson, MS

July 11, 1998Tensas Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1998, 5:48 PM CDT for Tensas Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 32 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 11, 1998, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1998, 6:20 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Tensas Parish, LA

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1998-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 565 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1998-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-251 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

213 
WUUS1 KJAN 112247 RRA
SVRJAN
LAC107-112320-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
548 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN TENSAS PARISH IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 620 PM CDT

* AT 547 PM CDT... RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES
  NORTH OF SAINT JOSEPH OR 3 MILES EAST OF NEWELLTON MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND RURAL AREAS.

DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

68

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 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.