Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1998, 1:56 PM CST for Copiah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 5, 1998, 1:56 PM CST (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1998, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Copiah County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
123 WUUS1 KJAN 051957 RRA SVRJAN MSC029-052045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 156 PM CST THU MAR 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...COPIAH COUNTY AT 155 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF HAZLEHURST MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 55 JUST NORTH OF HAZLEHURST SHORTLY AFTER 200 PM AND MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. < 76
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, Mar 5, 10:00 AM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-060400- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CST THU MAR 5 1998 A WARM FRONT EXTENDED FROM SOUTH ARKANSAS ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI NEAR COLUMBUS THIS MORNING. THE FRONT IS ASSOCIATED WITH A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF SMALL HAIL. THE WARM FRONT WILL SLOW BY NOON AND BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY. THE AIR MASS OVER THE SOUTH HALF OF THE STATE WILL BE HUMID AND UNSTABLE AS SOUTHERLY FLOW SOUTH OF THE FRONT FORCES GULF MOISTURE INLAND. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A FEW STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE...MAINLY OVER NORTHEAST LOIUSIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIALS MAY BE NECESSARY THIS EVENING AND EARLY TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.JANNWS.STATE.MS.US (IN SMALL CASE LETTERS).
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 10:00 AM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-060400- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CST THU MAR 5 1998 A WARM FRONT EXTENDED FROM SOUTH ARKANSAS ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI NEAR COLUMBUS THIS MORNING. THE FRONT IS ASSOCIATED WITH A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF SMALL HAIL. THE WARM FRONT WILL SLOW BY NOON AND BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY. THE AIR MASS OVER THE SOUTH HALF OF THE STATE WILL BE HUMID AND UNSTABLE AS SOUTHERLY FLOW SOUTH OF THE FRONT FORCES GULF MOISTURE INLAND. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A FEW STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE...MAINLY OVER NORTHEAST LOIUSIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIALS MAY BE NECESSARY THIS EVENING AND EARLY TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.JANNWS.STATE.MS.US (IN SMALL CASE LETTERS).
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 4:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.