Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 32
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 10, 1998, 5:00 PM CST for Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas; East Carroll Parish, Madison Parish, Tensas Parish, Louisiana; 47 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 10, 1998, 5:00 PM CST (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1998, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, East Carroll Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Issaquena, Warren | 35 min |
| Feb 10, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey, Washington | 35 min |
| Feb 10, 5:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Washington | 53 min |
| Feb 10, 5:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 48 min |
| Feb 10, 6:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey, Yazoo | 42 min |
| Feb 10, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 66 min |
| Feb 10, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower | 66 min |
| Feb 10, 6:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 66 min |
| Feb 10, 6:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Leflore | 47 min |
| Feb 10, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 45 min |
| Feb 10, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 38 min |
| Feb 10, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 35 min |
| Feb 10, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 45 min |
| Feb 10, 6:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 32 min |
| Feb 10, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 66 min |
| Feb 10, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 66 min |
| Feb 10, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 35 min |
| Feb 10, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery | 45 min |
| Feb 10, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 45 min |
| Feb 10, 7:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 46 min |
| Feb 10, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Webster | 45 min |
| Feb 10, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 45 min |
| Feb 10, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 50 min |
| Feb 10, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 50 min |
| Feb 10, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 35 min |
| Feb 10, 8:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Neshoba, Oktibbeha, Winston | 63 min |
| Feb 10, 8:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 63 min |
| Feb 10, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 47 min |
| Feb 10, 10:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 38 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Garland and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Sabine | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 18 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 1998Tornado Watches in Louisiana, 1998Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 1998Every tornado watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.