Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1998

Tornado Warning 39, NWS New Orleans, LA

November 10, 1998Pearl River County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 1998, 12:42 PM CST for Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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: Nov 10, 1998, 12:42 PM CST (18:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 1998, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Pearl River County, MS

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, 11:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 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.

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: 967 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 344 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 471 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 8.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

099 
WFUS1 KNEW 101840 RRA
TORNEW
MSC109-101930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1242 PM CST TUE NOV 10 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS LA HAS ISSUED A...

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
   - PEARL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 130 PM CST

* AT 1239 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO BETWEEN BOGALUSA AND ANGIE...MOVING
  EAST 30 MPH. WASHINGTON PARISH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED
  DAMAGE TO ROOFS WHEN THE THUNDERSTORMS PASSED THROUGH
  FRANKLINTON. COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE CROSSROADS AND POPLARVILLE


IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM
AWAY FROM WINDOWS

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE
OF STURDY FURNITURE. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A
CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO
COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

&

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 10:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	46 min
Nov 10, 11:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike	47 min
Nov 10, 11:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Walthall	46 min
Nov 10, 11:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Walthall	31 min
Nov 10, 1:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pearl River	33 min
Nov 10, 2:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock, Pearl River	48 min
Nov 10, 3:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Hancock	48 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 1998 Every tornado warning in 1998 Tornadoes 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.