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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Jackson, MS

April 5, 1997Issaquena County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1997, 7:03 AM CST for Issaquena County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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
Apr 5, 1997, 7:03 AM CST (13:03 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 1997, 7:30 AM CST
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Issaquena County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 5, 2:30 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1997-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 60 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1997-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 409 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
409 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
671 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 7:16 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSharkey44 min
Apr 5, 7:26 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWashington34 min
Apr 5, 7:33 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHumphreys, Sunflower42 min
Apr 5, 7:33 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo42 min
Apr 5, 7:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClaiborne52 min
Apr 5, 7:44 AM CSTTornado WarningJANHumphreys31 min
Apr 5, 7:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHolmes, Leflore48 min
Apr 5, 8:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWarren28 min
Apr 5, 8:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCopiah, Hinds48 min
Apr 5, 8:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll, Grenada54 min
Apr 5, 8:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison, Rankin65 min
Apr 5, 8:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo41 min
Apr 5, 8:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANSimpson48 min
Apr 5, 9:29 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANScott46 min
Apr 5, 9:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChoctaw48 min
Apr 5, 10:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLeake, Neshoba45 min
Apr 5, 10:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANOktibbeha, Webster42 min
Apr 5, 11:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClarke, Lauderdale53 min
Apr 5, 6:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMorehouse44 min
Apr 5, 6:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCatahoula27 min
Apr 5, 6:27 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANFranklin, Richland33 min
Apr 5, 6:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWest Carroll46 min
Apr 5, 6:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMadison46 min
Apr 5, 6:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANEast Carroll33 min
Apr 5, 6:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAshley38 min
Apr 5, 6:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChicot52 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.