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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Jackson, MS

April 8, 1998Carroll County, Holmes County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1998, 6:25 PM CDT for Carroll County, Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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: Apr 8, 1998, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1998, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, MS, Holmes 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
Apr 8, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1038 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

467 
WFUS1 KJAN 082332
TORJAN
MSC015-051-090015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING                      ...CORRECTED FOR COUNTY AREAS...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
625 PM CDT WED APR 8 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

   ...SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY...NORTHERN HOLMES COUNTY

AT 623 PM DOPPLER RADR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF COLIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE BETWEEN
COLIA AND HIGHWAY 430 BY 635 PM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET UNDER STURDY FURNITURE.
USE PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR HEAD.
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 8:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	44 min
Apr 8, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	42 min
Apr 8, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore	47 min
Apr 8, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	41 min
Apr 8, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	51 min
Apr 8, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	46 min
Apr 8, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba	43 min
Apr 8, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	31 min
Apr 8, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	51 min
Apr 8, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	46 min
Apr 8, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	51 min
Apr 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.