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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Jackson, MS

February 28, 1997Sunflower County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 1997, 4:22 PM CST for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 38 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, 4:22 PM CST (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Feb 28, 1997, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Sunflower County, MS

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 28, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 1491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 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.

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

Local storm report, Feb 28, 2:19 PM CST, 2 hours 3 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, 2:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	27 min
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, 4:40 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, 1997 Every 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.