Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 38, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 1998, 6:43 PM CDT for Benton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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 27, 1998, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Benton County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:17 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Hickory Flat, MS | One home had its roof collapse due to the golf ball size hail, the heavy rain and gusty winds. |
| Apr 27, 7:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Flat, MS | Several trees were knocked down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
352 WFUS1 KMEM 272342 RRA TORMEM MSC009-280030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 643 PM CDT MON APR 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 641 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR POTTS CAMP MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HICKORY FLAT BY 700 PM CDT .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 AVAILABLE...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. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tate | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Marshall | 36 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.