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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jackson, MS

February 26, 1998Claiborne County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Feb 26, 1998, 10:44 AM CST for Claiborne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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: Feb 26, 1998, 10:44 AM CST (16:44 UTC)
Expired: Feb 26, 1998, 11:15 AM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Claiborne County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 26, 10:50 AM CST	Tornado F1	Port Gibson, MS	This tornado formed in the rotating comma head of a bow echo. The tornado moved through a mostly wooded area and blew down hundreds of trees. It took much of the day to remove trees from the Natchez Trace Parkway before traffic could resume. One house had a tr

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
Feb 26, 9:30 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 339 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

952 
WFUS1 KJAN 261647 RRA
TORJAN
MSC021-261715-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1044 AM CST THU FEB 26 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...EASTERN CLAIBORNE COUNTY
 
AT 1040 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORT
GIBSON MOVING NORTHEAST 55 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL MOVE ALONG THE NATCHEZ
TRACE NEAR ROCKY SPRINGS.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET UNDER STURDY FURNITURE.
USE PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR HEAD.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 26, 9:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	38 min
Feb 26, 10:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	52 min
Feb 26, 10:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	44 min
Feb 26, 10:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Warren	47 min
Feb 26, 10:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	48 min
Feb 26, 10:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	41 min
Feb 26, 11:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Rankin, Yazoo	36 min
Feb 26, 11:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Simpson	36 min
Feb 26, 11:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	39 min
Feb 26, 11:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	33 min
Feb 26, 11:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	27 min
Feb 26, 12:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton, Smith	46 min
Feb 26, 12:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba	46 min
Feb 26, 12:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	39 min
Feb 26, 12:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee, Winston	43 min
Feb 26, 1:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale, Newton	58 min
Feb 26, 1:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	32 min
Feb 26, 1:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	30 min
Feb 26, 1:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	50 min
Feb 26, 2:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	15 min
Feb 26, 2:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	41 min
Feb 26, 2:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jasper, Jones	45 min
Feb 26, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	45 min
Feb 26, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	45 min
Feb 26, 3:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	28 min
Feb 26, 3:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	53 min
Feb 26, 3:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	47 min
Feb 26, 4:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	53 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.