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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 5:17 PM CDT for Leflore County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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
- Apr 16, 1998, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Leflore County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Minter City, MS | This weak tornado moved across an open field. |
| Apr 16, 5:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Minter City, MS | Tin and shingles were blown off of several buildings. |
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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 971 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 464 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
798 WFUS1 KJAN 162218 RRA TORJAN MSC083-162300- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 517 PM CDT THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LEFLORE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 513 PM CDT... A TORNADO NEAR DODDSVILLE OR 15 MILES WEST OF SCHLATER...INDICATED BY JACKSON WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 35 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND A TORNADO. * THE FOLLOWING LOCATION IS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM... SCHLATER BY 530 PM CDT MONEY BY 540 PM CDT MINTER CITY BY 540 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, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 46 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, 5:45 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.