Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1997, 2:07 PM CST for Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi. It was in force for 53 min. 2 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, 2:07 PM CST (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1997, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson Davis County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Bassfield, MS | |
| Mar 30, 2:35 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Bassfield, 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
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 30, 9:36 AM CST, 4 hours 31 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, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.