Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 272, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1997, 4:57 PM CDT for Attala County, Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 min. 4 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
- May 14, 1997, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Attala County, MS, Holmes County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Durant, MS | Nickel size hail completely covered the ground. |
| May 14, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lexington, MS | This tornado was filmed as it crossed Interstate 55. No damage occurred with this tornado. |
| May 14, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Mc Adams, MS | This short track tornado moved east-southeast through the town of Mc Adams. Many trees were blown down or uprooted. Some of the trees fell on buildings. Minor damage was down to a few buildings and many windows were blown out of a school. |
| May 14, 5:40 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Mc Adams, MS | Many windows were broken out by hail. severa houses had roof damage and the roof of a school was damaged. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 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 142200 RRA SVRJAN MSC007-051-142245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 457 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...ATTALA COUNTY...EASTERN HOLMES COUNTY AT 457 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR OR JUST NORTH OF DURANT BY 515 PM AND NEAR THE KOSCIUSKO AREA BY 525 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...2AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. < 75
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, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 38 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, 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
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.