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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Memphis, TN

June 5, 1998Lowndes County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1998, 2:27 PM CDT for Lowndes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 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
Jun 5, 1998, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1998, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lowndes County, MS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 2:30 PM CDTTornado F1New Hope, MSThe tornado touched down near the town of New Hope. Thirteen houses had major damage and another 129 homes had minor damage. Twenty-two mobile homes were either damaged or destroyed.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 5, 1:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1998-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2789 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1998-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2789 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
468 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.0
Supercell composite
11.2

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The text

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

699 
WFUS1 KMEM 051926 RRA
TORMEM
MSC087-052000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
227 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LOWNDES COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 226 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A
  TORNADO NEAR NEW HOPE MOVNING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NEW HOPE BY 230 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 1:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTunica32 min
Jun 5, 1:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDeSoto62 min
Jun 5, 2:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTate50 min
Jun 5, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall63 min
Jun 5, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola63 min
Jun 5, 2:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLafayette, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha63 min
Jun 5, 2:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton, Tippah63 min
Jun 5, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPontotoc, Union60 min
Jun 5, 3:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGAlcorn47 min
Jun 5, 3:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Prentiss47 min
Jun 5, 3:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw47 min
Jun 5, 3:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba, Tishomingo49 min
Jun 5, 4:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLowndes42 min
Jun 5, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLowndes32 min
Jun 5, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay, Monroe33 min

Nearby

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