Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 2:09 AM CST for Tishomingo 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 2:09 AM CST (08:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 2:40 AM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tishomingo County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:20 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Midway, MS | Dime size hail covered the road. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
890 WUUS1 KMEM 030811 RRA SVRMEM MSC141-030840- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 209 AM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 240 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...TISHOMINGO COUNTY AT 207 AM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES SOUTH OF IUKA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. .THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 11:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 11:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 12:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.