Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 1998, 3:09 AM CST for Copiah 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
- Mar 7, 1998, 3:09 AM CST (09:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1998, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Copiah County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 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
- 401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
045 WUUS1 KJAN 070910 RRA SVRJAN MSC029-071000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 309 AM CST SAT MAR 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...COPIAH COUNTY AT 308 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER COPIAH COUNTY ABOUT 7 WEST OF HAZLEHURST. THE STORM WILL MOVE EAST NEAR 45 MPH AND WILL APPROACH HAZLEHURST AND MARTINSVILLE BY 325 AM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. < 66
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, Mar 7, 12:26 AM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1226 AM CST SAT MAR 07 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1050 PM 6 SW NOXAPATER MS .75 INCH HAIL
03/06/98 WINSTON REPORTED BY WINSTON S. O.
1152 PM 4 E STARKVILLE MS 1 INCH HAIL
03/06/98 OKTIBBEHA REPORTED BY OKTIBBEHA S. O.Local storm report, Mar 7, 12:26 AM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1226 AM CST SAT MAR 07 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1050 PM 6 SW NOXAPATER MS .75 INCH HAIL
03/06/98 WINSTON REPORTED BY WINSTON S. O.
1152 PM 4 E STARKVILLE MS 1 INCH HAIL
03/06/98 OKTIBBEHA REPORTED BY OKTIBBEHA S. O.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 45 min |
| Mar 6, 10:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Winston | 51 min |
| Mar 6, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 55 min |
| Mar 7, 12:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 3:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 53 min |
| Mar 7, 4:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 4:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 4:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 4:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 4:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 54 min |
| Mar 7, 5:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Simpson | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 5:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 5:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 5:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Mar 7, 6:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 6:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 6:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 7:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 7:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 52 min |
| Mar 7, 7:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 24 min |
| Mar 7, 10:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 11:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 12:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 40 min |
| Mar 7, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 12:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Mar 7, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 26 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.