Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 295, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 6:47 AM CDT for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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 27, 1997, 6:47 AM CDT (11:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sunflower County, MS
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 27, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 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
- 4008 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
926 WUUS1 KJAN 271148 RRA SVRJAN MSC133-271230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 647 AM CDT TUE MAY 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...SUNFLOWER COUNTY AT 647 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING WESTERN SUNFLOWER COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL MOVE NEAR SUNFLOWER...INDIANOLA...AND INVERNESS BY 715 AM. DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. < 65
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 27, 1:54 AM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
MSZ026>029-032-033-270900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 154 AM CDT TUE MAY 27 1997 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 331... CARROLL... CHOCTAW... GRENADA... MONTGOMERY... OKTIBBEHA... WEBSTER.. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS SHIFTED TO THE EAST OF THE AREA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...ALTHOUGH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE IN THE AREA EARLY THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, May 27, 2:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
MSZ026>029-032-033-270900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 154 AM CDT TUE MAY 27 1997 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 331... CARROLL... CHOCTAW... GRENADA... MONTGOMERY... OKTIBBEHA... WEBSTER.. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS SHIFTED TO THE EAST OF THE AREA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...ALTHOUGH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE IN THE AREA EARLY( THIS MORNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 58 min |
| May 27, 5:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 41 min |
| May 27, 6:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 69 min |
| May 27, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 49 min |
| May 27, 7:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 53 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.