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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Jackson, MS

June 15, 1998Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1998, 6:48 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1998, 7:35 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 7:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian, MS	Several trees were blown down.

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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 152346 RRA
TORJAN
MSC075-160035-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 735 PM CDT

* AT 646 PM CDT... RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 13 MILES
  NORTH OF MERIDIAN OR 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLLINSVILLE MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS STORBM WILL MAINLY AFFECT SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND RURAL AREAS.

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, 4:54 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, 6:50 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.