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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, MS

January 8, 1999Bolivar County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1999, 6:44 PM CST for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 8, 1999, 6:44 PM CST (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Jan 8, 1999, 7:20 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Bolivar County, MS

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 8, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 378 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

999 
WUUS1 KJAN 090045 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC011-090120-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
644 PM CST FRI JAN 8 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BOLIVAR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 720 PM CST

* AT 643 PM CST... RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF CLEVELAND OR 6 MILES WEST OF MOUND BAYOU... MOVING
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SHELBY AT 647 PM CST
  MOUND BAYOU AT 650 PM CST
  MERIGOLD AT 650 PM CST
  RENOVA AT 650 PM CST
  CLEVELAND AT 650 PM CST

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 8, 2:40 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes before

ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074-
090400-

AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
240 PM CST FRI JAN 8 1999

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST AND WEST
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI TILL 800 PM TONIGHT. THIS TORNADO WATCH AREA
MAY BE EXTENDED FARTHER TO THE EAST IN MISSISSIPPI LATER TONIGHT.
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MAINLY WEST AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI TODAY
WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE AND MOVE FARTHER EASTWARD TONIGHT.  A
DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE FROM THE ARKLATEX REGION
TODAY AND WILL WOVE INTO TENNESSEE BY LATE THIS EVENING.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL ORGANIZE ALONG THE TRAILING STRONG COLD
FRONT THAT IS FORECAST TO SWEEP EASTWARD DURING THE NIGHT BRINGING THE
THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THROUGH MOST OF THE STATE.

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT/CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONNEL WILL BE NECESSARY IN COUNTIES AND
PARISHES COVERED BY THE CURRENT TORNADO WATCH AND MAY BECOME NECESSARY IN
ADDITIONAL COUTIES IN MISSISSIPPI LATER TONIGHT.

Local storm report, Jan 8, 6:27 PM CST, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
627 PM CST FRI JAN 08 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....

0338 PM    4 W OAK GROVE             LA   TORNADO
01/08/99   WEST CARROLL                   TORNADO SIGHTED ON GROUND
                                          BY HAM RADIO
                                          SPOTTER...SOME STRUCTURAL
                                          DAMAGE

0400 PM    4 N LAKE PROVIDENCE       LA   WIND DAMAGE
01/08/99   EAST CARROLL                   WIND DAMAGE/TREES DOWN IN
                                          AREA...POSSIBLE TORNADO

0435 PM    GRACE                     MS   .75 INCH HAIL
01/08/99   ISSAQUENA

0515 PM    SILVER CITY               MS   TORNADO
01/08/99   HUMPHREYS                      SPOTTER REPORTED TORNADO
                                          ON GROUND IN AREA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 8, 6:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll	51 min
Jan 8, 6:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Yazoo	48 min
Jan 8, 6:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena	35 min
Jan 8, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	34 min
Jan 8, 7:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	35 min
Jan 8, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower	47 min
Jan 8, 8:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Washington	45 min
Jan 8, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.