Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1997, 12:06 PM CDT for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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
- May 2, 1997, 12:06 PM CDT (17:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1997, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sunflower County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ruleville, 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 701 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 021708 RRA SVRJAN MSC133-021745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1206 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN SUNFLOWER COUNTY AT 1206 PM RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ONE JUST NORTH OF CLEVELAND AND THE OTHER JUST WEST OF CLEVELAND. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL AFFECT THE PARCHMAN AREA BY 1230 PM. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAI<N...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. < 63
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, May 2, 10:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
MSZ001>082-030400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1015 AM CDT FRI MAY 02 1997 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY MOVING INTO NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ASSOCIATED WITH A SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA AND TRIGGER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION IN THE FORM OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE ISOLATED TORNADOES THROUGH TONIGHT. IT WILL LIKELY BECOME NECESSARY TO ACTIVATE STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND PUBLIC SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PERSONNEL FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, May 2, 10:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
MSZ001>082-030400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1015 AM CDT FRI MAY 02 1997 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY MOVING INTO NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ASSOCIATED WITH A SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA AND TRIGGER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION IN THE FORM OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE ISOLATED TORNADOES THROUGH TONIGHT. IT WILL LIKELY BECOME NECESSARY TO ACTIVATE STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND PUBLIC SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PERSONNEL FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 42 min |
| May 2, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 54 min |
| May 2, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 55 min |
| May 2, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 2, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 47 min |
| May 2, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 52 min |
| May 2, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 42 min |
| May 2, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 33 min |
| May 2, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 57 min |
| May 2, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 42 min |
| May 2, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 56 min |
| May 2, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 52 min |
| May 2, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 63 min |
| May 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 41 min |
| May 2, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Webster | 53 min |
| May 2, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 65 min |
| May 2, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 52 min |
| May 2, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 64 min |
| May 2, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 46 min |
| May 2, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Montgomery | 58 min |
| May 2, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 46 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.