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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 561, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1998, 10:22 AM CST for Lowndes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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, 10:22 AM CST (16:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 11:10 AM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lowndes County, MS
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, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, Nov 10, 9:55 AM CST, 27 minutes before
MSZ018-019-025>039-101645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 955 AM CST TUE NOV 10 1998 ...COUNTY DISTRIBUTION UNDER CANCELLED WATCH TORNADO NUMBER 891 AND NEW TORNADO WATCH 893.... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED UNDER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 891...WHICH HAS BEEN REPLACED BY TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 893. BOLIVAR...SUNFLOWER...GRENADA...MONTGOMERY...WASHINGTON...HUMPHREYS... HOLMES...CARROLL...LEFLORE THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THAT WERE UNDER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 891 ARE UNDER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 893. WEBSTER...LOWNDES...CLAY..OKTIBBEHA...CHOCTAW...ATTALA...WINSTON... NOXUBEE...NESHOBA...KEMPER HTTP://WWW.JANNWS.STATE.MS.US/ (IN LOWER CASE LETTERS)
Special weather statement, Nov 10, 9:55 AM CST, 27 minutes before
MSZ018-019-025>039-101645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 955 AM CST TUE NOV 10 1998 ...COUNTY DISTRIBUTION UNDER CANCELLED WATCH TORNADO NUMBER 891 AND NEW TORNADO WATCH 893.... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED UNDER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 891...WHICH HAS BEEN REPLACED BY TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 893. BOLIVAR...SUNFLOWER...GRENADA...MONTGOMERY...WASHINGTON...HUMPHREYS... HOLMES...CARROLL...LEFLORE THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THAT WERE UNDER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 891 ARE UNDER TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 893. WEBSTER...LOWNDES...CLAY..OKTIBBEHA...CHOCTAW...ATTALA...WINSTON... NOXUBEE...NESHOBA...KEMPER HTTP://WWW.JANNWS.STATE.MS.US/ (IN LOWER CASE LETTERS)
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, 9:24 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, 10:47 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.