Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 1997, 5:17 PM CST for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 1997, 5:17 PM CST (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yazoo County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 5:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Yazoo City, MS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 022318 RRA SVRJAN MSC163-030000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 517 PM CST SUN MAR 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...YAZOO COUNTY AT 516 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF SATARTIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR YAZOO CITY BY 535 PM AND SOUTH OF EDEN BY 545 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. < 74
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, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 44 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, 5:46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.