Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 1997, 2:33 PM CST for Jefferson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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
- Feb 28, 1997, 2:33 PM CST (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 1997, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 282036 RRA SVRJAN MSC063-282100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 233 PM CST FRI FEB 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 231 PM...JACKSON RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAYETTE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 45 MPH. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. <
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, Feb 28, 10:10 AM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
MSZ001>082-290400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1010 AM CST FRI FEB 28 1997 A WARM FRONT THAT WAS LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING WILL MOVE NORTH ACROSS THE STATE TODAY AND LIFT NORTH OF THE AREA BY TONIGHT. INCREASING SOUTHERLY WIND BEHIND THE FRONT WILL USHER A MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIR MASS INTO THE REGION. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE BUT MOST ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS DUE TO LIMITED DYNAMICS IN THE AREA. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT/CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONNEL IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Feb 28, 10:17 AM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
MSZ001>082-290400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1010 AM CST FRI FEB 28 1997 A WARM FRONT THAT WAS LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING WILL MOVE NORTH ACROSS THE STATE TODAY AND LIFT NORTH OF THE AREA BY TONIGHT. INCREASING SOUTHERLY WIND BEHIND THE FRONT WILL USHER A MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIR MASS INTO THE REGION. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE BUT MOST ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS DUE TO LIMITED DYNAMICS IN THE AREA. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT/CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONNEL IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
Local storm report, Feb 28, 2:19 PM CST, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION TO YESTERDAYS LSR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
220 PM CST THU FEB 27 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0700 PM HAMBURG AR 60 MPH TSTM GUST
02/26/97 ASHLEY REPORTED IN HAMBURG
BY S.O.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 2:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 37 min |
| Feb 28, 3:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 35 min |
| Feb 28, 3:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 51 min |
| Feb 28, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 40 min |
| Feb 28, 4:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 38 min |
| Feb 28, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 65 min |
| Feb 28, 5:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.