Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1997, 3:37 PM CDT for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 38 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 14, 1997, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sunflower County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 142040 RRA SVRJAN MSC133-142115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 337 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN SUNFLOWER COUNTY AT 337 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN JACKSON INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHEAST OF INDIANOLA. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD APPROACH MOORHEAD BY 355 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. < 75
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 14, 10:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-150400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1030 AM CDT WED MAY 14 1997 THE AIRMASS OVER THE STATE HAS GAINED SOME MOISTURE IN THE PAST 24 HOURS. CONDITIONS HAVE ALSO BECOME MARGINALLY UNSTABLE. THESE FACTORS COMBINED WITH AFTERNOON HEATING AND THE APPROACH OF A COLD FRONT WILL TRIGGER SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. AT THIS TIME...STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. ACTIVITION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, May 14, 10:31 AM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-150400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1030 AM CDT WED MAY 14 1997 THE AIRMASS OVER THE STATE HAS GAINED SOME MOISTURE IN THE PAST 24 HOURS. CONDITIONS HAVE ALSO BECOME MARGINALLY UNSTABLE. THESE FACTORS COMBINED WITH AFTERNOON HEATING AND THE APPROACH OF A COLD FRONT WILL TRIGGER SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. AT THIS TIME...STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. ACTIVITION OF STORM SPOTTERS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 49 min |
| May 14, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 52 min |
| May 14, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 50 min |
| May 14, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Webster | 41 min |
| May 14, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 31 min |
| May 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 48 min |
| May 14, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala | 45 min |
| May 14, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 52 min |
| May 14, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 54 min |
| May 14, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba | 46 min |
| May 14, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 39 min |
| May 14, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 34 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.