Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 62, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1998, 4:25 PM CDT for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 15, 1998, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1998, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yazoo County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 4:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Satartia, MS | |
| Jun 15, 4:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Bentonia, MS | |
| Jun 15, 4:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Benton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 152123 RRA TORJAN MSC163-152215- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 425 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... YAZOO COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 424 PM CDT... STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF VICKSBURG OR 19 MILES WEST OF BENTONIA MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL MAINLvY AFFECT SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND RURAL AREAS. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! 64
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 15, 11:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1145 AM CDT MON JUN 15 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1200 AM STEWART MS WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98 MONTGOMERY TREES BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED
BY MONTGOMERY SO.
1210 AM 6 E ETHEL MS WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98 ATTALA TREES BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED
BY THE PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jun 15, 11:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1145 AM CDT MON JUN 15 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1200 AM STEWART MS WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98 MONTGOMERY TREES BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED
BY MONTGOMERY SO.
1210 AM 6 E ETHEL MS WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98 ATTALA TREES BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED
BY THE PUBLIC.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Montgomery | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Leflore | 50 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.