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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Jackson, MS

April 8, 1998Kemper County, Neshoba County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1998, 6:58 PM CDT for Kemper County, Neshoba 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: Apr 8, 1998, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kemper County, MS, Neshoba County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 8, 7:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	De Kalb, MS	Three roofs of houses were damaged and one roof was blown off. Several trees and power lines 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
Apr 8, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 082358 RRA
TORJAN
MSC069-099-090045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
658 PM CDT WED APR 8 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...KEMPER COUNTY...EASTERN NESHOBA COUNTY
 
AT 656 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 19 AND 492...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS
TORNADO WILL MOVE INTO KEMPER COUNTY BY 715 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, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes	50 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

Nearby

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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.