Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 214, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1997, 2:53 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 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
- May 2, 1997, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Choctaw County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 750 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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, May 2, 10:13 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 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, 4 hours 38 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, 12:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 39 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, 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 |
| May 2, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 66 min |
| May 2, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll, West Carroll | 49 min |
| May 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 45 min |
| May 2, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 32 min |
| May 2, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 54 min |
| May 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 30 min |
| May 2, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 40 min |
| May 2, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.