Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1999, 8:14 PM CST for Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 31 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
- Mar 8, 1999, 8:14 PM CST (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1999, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Catahoula Parish, LA
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 674 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 9:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 9:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Madison, Rankin | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 10:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Adams | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott, Smith | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 10:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 10:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 10:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 11:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 11:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 12:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 12:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 6:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Richland | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 6:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Richland | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 51 min |
| Mar 8, 9:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Concordia | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.