Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 1998, 5:14 PM CDT for Greene County, Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 61 min. 3 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 17, 1998, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | New Augusta, MS | Baseball size hail was reported around New Augusta. Several vehicles suffered damage and several homes had roof damage and windows broken. |
| Apr 17, 6:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Leakesville, MS | |
| Apr 17, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Leakesville, MS |
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.
392 WFUS1 KMOB 172215 RRA TORMOB MSC041-111-172315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 514 PM CDT FRI APR 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 510 PM CDT... TWO TORNADOES WERE INDICATED BY NWS DOPPLER RADAR. THE FIRST WAS BETWEEN PERRY AND NEELY,MS. THE SECOND WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF NEW AUGUSTA. * THE FIRST TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE JUST NORTH OF LEAKESVILLE BY 545 PM CDT. THE SECOND TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WESTERN PERRY COUNTY BY 530 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, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 61 min |
| Apr 17, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 49 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.