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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Jackson, MS

March 2, 1997Attala County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1997, 4:16 PM CST for Attala County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 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 2, 1997, 4:16 PM CST (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 1997, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Attala 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
Mar 2, 1:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 2, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 022217 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC007-022300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
416 PM CST SUN MAR 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...ATTALA COUNTY
 
AT 416 PM CST JACKSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
EASTERN HOLMES COUNTY ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF DURANT MOVING EAST NORTHEAST
AT 40 MPH. ON THIS PATH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN
ATTALA COUNTY AND TO NEAR KOSCIUSKO BY 430 PM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN
CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 3:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Montgomery	32 min
Mar 2, 3:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Montgomery	29 min
Mar 2, 3:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Webster	43 min
Mar 2, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	35 min
Mar 2, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	49 min
Mar 2, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Montgomery	47 min
Mar 2, 4:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw	48 min
Mar 2, 5:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	31 min
Mar 2, 5:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	43 min
Mar 2, 5:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	44 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.