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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Jackson, MS

June 15, 1998Madison County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1998, 4:54 PM CDT for Madison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 15, 1998, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1998, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 5:10 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Flora, MS	Many automobiles and roofs were damaged.

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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 35 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 152152 RRA
TORJAN
MSC089-152230-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
454 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 452 PM CDT... RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 24 MILES WEST
  OF CANTON OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF FLORA MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE FOLLOWING LOCATION IS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...
  FLORA                       BY 510 PM CDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

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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, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	50 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.