Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 556, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1998, 9:19 AM CST for Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 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
- Nov 10, 1998, 9:19 AM CST (15:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 10:10 AM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hinds County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 9:30 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson, MS | A few trees were blown down and several houses sustained damage. |
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 35 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
- 222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
699 WUUS1 KJAN 101522 RRA SVRJAN MSC049-101610- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 919 AM CST TUE NOV 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1010 AM CST * AT 918 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF JACKSON... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE FOLLOWING LOCATION IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM... JACKSON AT 930 AM CST 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 45 min |
| Nov 10, 7:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Washington | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 7:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey | 31 min |
| Nov 10, 8:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 8:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 31 min |
| Nov 10, 8:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 8:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 8:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 8:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 8:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 8:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 9:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 9:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha, Winston | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 9:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 9:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 49 min |
| Nov 10, 9:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 10:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 10:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 11:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Simpson | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 11:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 12:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 52 min |
| Nov 10, 12:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 49 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.