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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Memphis, TN

April 8, 1998Tishomingo County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1998, 7:10 PM CDT for Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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 8, 1998, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Tishomingo County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 8, 7:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Belmont, MS	A lumber truck was overturned. Several homes and businesses suffered roof damage and had windows blown out of them. Numerous power lines, telephone lines and trees were blown down with some of the trees landing on houses.

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, 0.2 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.

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: 2387 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -70 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.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 090010 RRA
TORMEM
MSC141-090045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
710 PM CDT WED APR 8 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

   ...SOUTHERN TISHOMINGO COUNTY

AT 705 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A PROBABLE TORNADO NEAR
BELMONT.  MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH ... THE STORM WILL AFFECT
NEARLY ALL OF THE SOUTH END OF TISHOMINGO COUNTY BETWEEN 709 PM AND
730 PM.

.IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILNABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A
CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO
COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 8, 6:16 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
615 PM CST WED APR 08 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0512 PM    COLLINSTOWN               MS   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   ALCORN                         GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY ALCORN COUNTY
                                          911

0515 PM    CARDWELL                  MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   DUNKLIN                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY KENNETT POLICE
                                          DEPT

0517 PM    SAVANNAH                  TN   .75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   HARDIN                         DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SAVANNAH POLICE DEPT
>
0540 PM    WYNNE                     AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   CROSS                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          SPOTTER

0545 PM    COLT                      AR   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/08/98   ST FRANCIS                     pGOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY ST FRANCIS
                                          COUNTY SHERIFF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tunica	34 min
Apr 8, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	32 min
Apr 8, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto	51 min
Apr 8, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	32 min
Apr 8, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lowndes	32 min
Apr 8, 8:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lowndes	31 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.