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Tornado Warning 71, NWS Jackson, MS

November 10, 1998Attala County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 1998, 8:33 AM CST for Attala 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: Nov 10, 1998, 8:33 AM CST (14:33 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 1998, 9:20 AM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Attala County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 10, 9:20 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Mc Cool, MS	Several trees were blown down and two houses sustained minor damage.

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
Nov 10, 6:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

436 
WFUS1 KJAN 101436 RRA
TORJAN
MSC007-101520-

BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
833 AM CST TUE NOV 10 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 920 AM CST

* AT 832 AM CST... RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 17 MILES WEST
  OF KOSCIUSKO... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE...
  KOSCIUSKO AT 855 AM CST
  ETHEL AT 905 AM CST

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



WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 6:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	45 min
Nov 10, 7:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Washington	50 min
Nov 10, 7:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey	31 min
Nov 10, 8:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	48 min
Nov 10, 8:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	31 min
Nov 10, 8:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery	47 min
Nov 10, 8:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	48 min
Nov 10, 8:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	51 min
Nov 10, 8:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	36 min
Nov 10, 8:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	48 min
Nov 10, 9:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	48 min
Nov 10, 9:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	50 min
Nov 10, 9:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	51 min
Nov 10, 9:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha, Winston	51 min
Nov 10, 9:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	51 min
Nov 10, 9:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	49 min
Nov 10, 9:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	46 min
Nov 10, 10:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	48 min
Nov 10, 10:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott, Smith	48 min
Nov 10, 11:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Simpson	46 min
Nov 10, 11:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	50 min
Nov 10, 12:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	47 min
Nov 10, 12:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	52 min
Nov 10, 12:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	49 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.