Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1997, 11:08 AM CST for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 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 5, 1997, 11:08 AM CST (17:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bolivar County, MS
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 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.
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, Mar 5, 9:40 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
MSZ001>082-060400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 940 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997 ...SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STATEWIDE TODAY... A COLD FRONT...ENTERING NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...WILL COMBINE WITH WARM...MOIST AIR OVER THE STATE TO PRODUCE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINE UP JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND MOVE THROUGH THE STATE WITH THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW-LYING AREAS AND ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS ALREADY FULL FROM EARLIER RAINS. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT/CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONNEL MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 9:41 AM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
MSZ001>082-060400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 940 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997 ...SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STATEWIDE TODAY... A COLD FRONT...ENTERING NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...WILL COMBINE WITH WARM...MOIST AIR OVER THE STATE TO PRODUCE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINE UP JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND MOVE THROUGH THE STATE WITH THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW-LYING AREAS AND ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS ALREADY FULL FROM EARLIER RAINS. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT/CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONNEL MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 11:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 42 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.