Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1997, 1:57 PM CST for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 min. 3 reports 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 30, 1997, 1:57 PM CST (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1997, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Goss, MS | |
| Mar 30, 2:15 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Columbia, MS | |
| Mar 30, 2:25 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Goss, 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 nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 1096 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 301959 RRA SVRJAN MSC091-302045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 157 PM CST SUN MAR 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN MARION COUNTY AT 157 PM CST JACKSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORGANTOWN MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL... POSSIBLY UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE... IS THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AN:D VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. <
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 30, 9:36 AM CST, 4 hours 21 minutes before
MSZ001>082-310400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 936 AM CST SUN MAR 30 1997 A COLD FRONT WAS ENTERING EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING. THIS FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS ALL BUT SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE STATE BY THIS EVENING...AND WILL MOVE WELL OFF THE COAST BY MONDAY MORNING. THE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THIS FRONT WAS UNSTABLE...ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF MISSISSIPPI. BECAUSE OF THIS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AS THE FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE STATE. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH THE BEST CHANCE OVER THE SOUTHEAST SECTIONS. LARGE HAIL IS THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE SEVERE STORMS...ALTHOUGH DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL COULD BE REQUIRED OVER SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 53 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.