Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 4:39 PM CDT for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 min. 3 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
- Apr 16, 1998, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 5:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bolivar County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:39 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Skene, MS | |
| Apr 16, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Shaw, MS | One house was severely damaged. The windows were blown out of several mobile homes and a couple of boats were flipped over. |
| Apr 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Cleveland, MS |
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 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 708 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
473 WFUS1 KJAN 162140 RRA TORJAN MSC011-162225- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 439 PM CDT THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 525 PM CDT * AT 437 PM CDT... A DEVELOPING TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLEVELAND OR IN THE VICINITY OF BENOIT... INDICATED BY JACKSON WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE... SHAW BY 500 PM CDT BOYLE BY 510 PM CDT CLEVELAND BY 510 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 32 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.