Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 558, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1998, 9:24 AM CST for Clay County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 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
- Nov 10, 1998, 9:24 AM CST (15:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 10:15 AM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:24 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 6:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
723 WUUS1 KJAN 101526 RRA SVRJAN MSC025-105-159-101615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 924 AM CST TUE NOV 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI OKTIBBEHA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI WINSTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1015 AM CST * AT 923 AM CST... RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STARKVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE FOLLOWING LOCATION IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM... STARKVILLE AT 950 AM CST GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. 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, 9:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 51 min |
| Nov 10, 9:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha, Winston | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.