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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jackson, MS

February 10, 1998Sharkey County, Yazoo County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 1998, 6:03 PM CST for Sharkey County, Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 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: Feb 10, 1998, 6:03 PM CST (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Feb 10, 1998, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Sharkey County, MS, Yazoo 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
Feb 10, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 394 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 476 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 3.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 110002
TORJAN
MSC163-125-110045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
603 PM CST TUE FEB 10 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...YAZOO COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...EASTERN SHARKEY COUNTY
 
AT 6 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF
HOLLY BLUFF. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
ANGUILLA TO EAST OF ONWARD. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
 
 
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
Feb 10, 6:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds	66 min
Feb 10, 6:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	66 min
Feb 10, 6:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sunflower	66 min
Feb 10, 6:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	66 min
Feb 10, 6:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Leflore	47 min
Feb 10, 6:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leflore	38 min
Feb 10, 6:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	45 min
Feb 10, 6:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada	32 min
Feb 10, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	66 min
Feb 10, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Rankin	66 min
Feb 10, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	66 min
Feb 10, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery	45 min
Feb 10, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	45 min
Feb 10, 8:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	38 min
Feb 10, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	45 min
Feb 10, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	45 min
Feb 10, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	50 min
Feb 10, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	50 min
Feb 10, 8:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	36 min
Feb 10, 8:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Neshoba, Oktibbeha, Winston	63 min
Feb 10, 8:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	63 min
Feb 10, 9:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	34 min
Feb 10, 9:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	54 min
Feb 10, 9:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	45 min
Feb 10, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	47 min
Feb 10, 10:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	41 min
Feb 10, 10:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Jones	38 min
Feb 10, 10:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.