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Tornado Watch 891

November 10, 19984 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 10, 1998, 6:15 AM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 1998, 6:15 AM CST (12:15 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 1998, 11:00 AM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 70 counties

Fulton County, KY, Pemiscot County, MO, 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, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

39 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 6:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	45 min
Nov 10, 6:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto	47 min
Nov 10, 6:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale, Tipton	46 min
Nov 10, 6:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	46 min
Nov 10, 7:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Washington	50 min
Nov 10, 7:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Haywood	47 min
Nov 10, 7:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson	33 min
Nov 10, 7:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Tate	33 min
Nov 10, 7:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	36 min
Nov 10, 7:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Weakley	32 min
Nov 10, 7:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sharkey	31 min
Nov 10, 7:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	33 min
Nov 10, 7:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman, Madison	50 min
Nov 10, 7:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Yalobusha	48 min
Nov 10, 8:02 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardeman, Madison	33 min
Nov 10, 8:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	48 min
Nov 10, 8:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	47 min
Nov 10, 8:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester	32 min
Nov 10, 8:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll	50 min
Nov 10, 8:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Union	63 min
Nov 10, 8:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Pontotoc	63 min
Nov 10, 8:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery	47 min
Nov 10, 8:33 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	47 min
Nov 10, 8:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henderson	51 min
Nov 10, 8:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	51 min
Nov 10, 8:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton, Houston, Stewart	31 min
Nov 10, 8:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Madison	20 min
Nov 10, 8:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Henry	19 min
Nov 10, 8:52 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Henderson	33 min
Nov 10, 8:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	48 min
Nov 10, 9:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Webster	48 min
Nov 10, 9:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	50 min
Nov 10, 9:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha, Winston	51 min
Nov 10, 9:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay	51 min
Nov 10, 9:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	62 min
Nov 10, 9:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	61 min
Nov 10, 9:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee	46 min
Nov 10, 10:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee	35 min
Nov 10, 10:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	32 min

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 54 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Nov 10, 6:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 24 more	5 hr
Nov 10, 10:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 48 more	5 hr
Nov 10, 10:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Boone, Campbell, Kenton	5 hr
Nov 10, 10:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Amite, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah, Covington and 28 more	5 hr
Nov 10, 11:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	George, Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River, Stone	5 hr
Nov 9, 11:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cedar and 25 more	5 hr
Nov 10, 1:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Audrain, Bollinger, Butler, Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Carter and 37 more	6 hr
Nov 10, 1:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Dunklin, Pemiscot	6 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.