Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 1998, 6:41 PM CDT for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 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 17, 1998, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1998, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 7:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Janice, MS | Trees and power lines were blown down from Janice to near Richton as another round of thunderstorms moved across southeast Mississippi. These storms did not have the large hail as the earlier storms but still had damaging winds. |
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 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
848 WFUS1 KMOB 172342 RRA TORMOB MSC111-180030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 641 PM CDT FRI APR 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 639 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW AUGUSTA OR 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELLEVILLE... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING EAST 45 MPH. * TORNADO WILL BE NEAR- BELLEVILLE AT 655 PM CDT MAHNED AT 700 PM CDT NEW AUGUSTA AT 705 PM CDT BEAUMONT AT 710 PM CDT HINTONVILLE AT 710 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 69 min |
| Apr 17, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 60 min |
| Apr 17, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 61 min |
| Apr 17, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 61 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.