Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1997, 1:26 PM CST for Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 49 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 25, 1997, 1:26 PM CST (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1997, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morehouse Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 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 251928 RRA SVRJAN LAC067-252015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 126 PM CST TUE MAR 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ...MOREHOUSE PARISH AT 125 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF BASTROP...JUST ENTERING MOREHOUSE PARISH. THE STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN BASTROP AND COLINSTON BY BY 150 PM. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO ANB INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. < 68
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 25, 9:57 AM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
MSZ001>082-260400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CST TUE MAR 25 1997 A MODERATELY STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE NORTH- WESTERN EXTREMES OF MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND PASS SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN EXTREMES OF THE MAGNOLIA STATE EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL INCREASE AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. IT MAY BECOME NECESSARY TO REQUEST THE ASSISTANCE OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL IN SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION AND WARNING ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 10:00 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
MSZ001>082-260400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CST TUE MAR 25 1997 A MODERATELY STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE NORTH- WESTERN EXTREMES OF MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND PASS SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN EXTREMES OF THE MAGNOLIA STATE EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL INCREASE AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. IT MAY BECOME NECESSARY TO REQUEST THE ASSISTANCE OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL IN SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION AND WARNING ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON AND 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.