Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1997, 3:15 PM CST for Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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 18, 1997, 3:15 PM CST (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1997, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 182117 RRA SVRJAN ARC003-017-182200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 315 PM CST TUE MAR 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS ...EASTERN ASHLEY COUNTY...CHICOT COUNTY AT 315 PM CST JACKSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WILMOT MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ON THIS PATH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT PORTLAND BY 330 PM AND LAKE VILLAGE BY 345 PM CST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN<. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. < 75
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 18, 10:00 AM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes before
MSZ001>082-190400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CST TUE MAR 18 1997 A COLD FRONT THIS MORNING WAS LOCATED ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST TEXAS. WARM AND MOIST AIR WAS FLOWING NORTH FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. A LINE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE COLD FRONT. THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS LOUISIANA AND INTO MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE ACROSS NORTH AND WEST MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT. THE POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE WEST OF A TUPELO TO STARKVILLE TO FOREST TO COLUMBIA MISSISSIPPI LINE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE ASSISTANCE OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT/CIVIL DEFENSE OR OTHER PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL FOR SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION AND WARNING ACTIVITIES MAY BE REQUIRED FOR TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 10:04 AM CST, 5 hours 11 minutes before
MSZ001>082-190400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CST TUE MAR 18 1997 A COLD FRONT THIS MORNING WAS LOCATED ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST TEXAS. WARM AND MOIST AIR WAS FLOWING NORTH FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. A LINE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE COLD FRONT. THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS LOUISIANA AND INTO MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE ACROSS NORTH AND WEST MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT. THE POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE WEST OF A TUPELO TO STARKVILLE TO FOREST TO COLUMBIA MISSISSIPPI LINE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE ASSISTANCE OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT/CIVIL DEFENSE OR OTHER PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL FOR SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION AND WARNING ACTIVITIES MAY BE REQUIRED FOR TONIGHT.
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.