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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 1998, 5:09 PM CST for Chicot County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 min. 2 reports 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 10, 1998, 5:09 PM CST (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1998, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chicot County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 5:25 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Lake Vlg, AR | |
| Feb 10, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Lake Vlg, AR | Four mobile homes were turned over. Several sheds were totally destroyed. Numerous trees were blown down. One large tree fell on a house. |
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 10, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 102309 RRA TORJAN ARC017-102345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 509 PM CST TUE FEB 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 50 min |
| Feb 10, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Ashley | 26 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.