Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 69, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1998, 7:47 PM CDT for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1998, 8:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yazoo County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Yazoo City, 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 00:00Z, 0.8 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
- 3337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 17.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KJAN 160045 RRA
TORJAN
MSC163-160135-
BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
747 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
YAZOO COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 835 PM CDT
* AT 746 PM CDT... RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF
YAZOO CITY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE FOLLOWING LOCATION IS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...
YAZOO CITY BY 749 PM CDT
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
64The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 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.