Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1998, 1:48 AM CST for Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 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
- Jan 22, 1998, 1:48 AM CST (07:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1998, 2:45 AM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Forrest County, MS, Lamar County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 1:51 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | Lumberton, MS | Several cars and roofs were damaged. |
| Jan 22, 2:37 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | Hattiesburg, MS | Several cars and roofs were damaged. |
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 220748 RRA SVRJAN MSC035-073-220845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 148 AM CST THU JAN 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...FORREST COUNTY...LAMAR COUNTY AT 147 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING LUMBERTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL ALONG INTERSTATE 59 TO NEAR PURVIS BY 200 AM AND HATTIESBURG BY 230 AM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. < 76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 9:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds | 2 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah | 2 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Rankin | 117 min |
| Jan 22, 1:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jan 22, 1:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Rankin | 4 hr |
| Jan 22, 4:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 5:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.