Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1998, 7:40 PM CDT for Amite County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1998, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Amite County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1879 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 7:40 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-291600- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 740 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1998 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREAS THIS THURSDAY EVENING. LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTH TO NORTHEAST DURING THE EVENING HOURS.
Special weather statement, May 28, 7:40 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-291600- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 740 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1998 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREAS THIS THURSDAY EVENING. LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTH TO NORTHEAST DURING THE EVENING HOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | West Feliciana | 48 min |
| May 28, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pointe Coupee | 62 min |
| May 28, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 65 min |
| May 28, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike | 44 min |
| May 28, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Amite | 3 hr |
| May 28, 8:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Pike | 3 hr |
| May 29, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.