Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1998, 3:43 PM CST for Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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
- Feb 26, 1998, 3:43 PM CST (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1998, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 47 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 21:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 4:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton, MS | Several trees were blown down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 262143 RRA SVRJAN MSC035-073-262230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 343 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...FORREST COUNTY...LAMAR COUNTY AT 343 PM...WEAHTER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUDERSTORM NEAR BAXTEXRVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. < 78
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
Local storm report, Feb 26, 12:56 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1256 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 AM BOVINA MS TORNADO
02/26/98 WARREN EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO TREES
AND BARNS FROM THE I-20
BOVINA EXIT SOUTH FOR
$ ABOUT 2 MILES ALONG BOVINA
CUTOFF ROADLocal storm report, Feb 26, 2:15 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
215 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 AM BOVINA MS WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 WARREN EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO TREES
AND BARNS FROM THE I-20
BOVINA EXIT SOUTH FOR
ABOUT 2 MILES ALONG BOVINA
CUTOFF ROAD...WARREN CIVIL
DEFENSE CONFIRMS STRAIGHT
LINE WINDS RATHER THAN
TORNADOLocal storm report, Feb 26, 2:15 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
215 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 AM BOVINA MS WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 WARREN EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO TREES
AND BARNS FROM THE I-20
BOVINA EXIT SOUTH FOR
ABOUT 2 MILES ALONG BOVINA
CUTOFF ROAD...WARREN CIVIL
DEFENSE CONFIRMS STRAIGHT
LINE WINDS RATHER THAN
TORNADOLocal storm report, Feb 26, 2:25 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1247 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1046 AM MOUND LA WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 MADISON WIND GUST TO 53 KNOTS
OBSERVED BY ASOS AT
VICKSBURG-TALLULAH
REGIONAL AIRPORT
1106 AM VICKSBURG MS WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 WARREN A NUMBER OF TREES DOWN IN
VICKSBURG REPORTED BY
AMATEUR RADIO
1112 AM WESSON MS WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 LINCOLN SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
NORTHWEST LINCOLN COUNTY A
FEW MILES SOUTHWEST OF
WESSON AT MOUNT ZION ROAD
AND I-55
1130 AM GLUCKSTADT MS WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 MADISON WIND GUST TO 60 MPH
REPORTED BY WEATHER
OBSERVER
1130 AM RICHLAND MS WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 RANKIN TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
NEAR I-20 AND HIGHWAY 49
INTERCHANGE
1135 AM WHITFIELD MS WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 RANKIN WIND DAMAGE TO LARGE TREES
AT MISS STATE
HOSPITAL...FUNNEL CLOUD
REPORTED BY HOSPITAL
PERSONNEL
1220 PM RALEIGH MS .75 INCH HAIL
02/26/98 SMITH DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
POLICE ON HIGHWAY 18 AT
t THE RALEIGH CITY LIMITSSpecial weather statement, Feb 26, 3:22 PM CST, 21 minutes before
MSZ033-039-262130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 322 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO. 68 CANCELLED FOR OKTIBBEHA AND NOXUBEE COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 68 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NOXUBEE AND OKTIBBEHA COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST INTO ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 3:22 PM CST, 21 minutes before
MSZ033-039-262130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 322 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO. 68 CANCELLED FOR OKTIBBEHA AND NOXUBEE COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 68 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NOXUBEE AND OKTIBBEHA COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST INTO ALABAMA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 9:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 38 min |
| Feb 26, 10:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 52 min |
| Feb 26, 10:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 44 min |
| Feb 26, 10:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Warren | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 10:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 10:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 31 min |
| Feb 26, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 41 min |
| Feb 26, 11:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin, Yazoo | 36 min |
| Feb 26, 11:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Simpson | 36 min |
| Feb 26, 11:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 39 min |
| Feb 26, 11:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 33 min |
| Feb 26, 11:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 27 min |
| Feb 26, 12:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton, Smith | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 12:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 12:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 39 min |
| Feb 26, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee, Winston | 43 min |
| Feb 26, 1:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale, Newton | 58 min |
| Feb 26, 1:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 32 min |
| Feb 26, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 30 min |
| Feb 26, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 50 min |
| Feb 26, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 15 min |
| Feb 26, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 41 min |
| Feb 26, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 3:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 28 min |
| Feb 26, 3:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 53 min |
| Feb 26, 4:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.