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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 298, NWS Jackson, MS

May 27, 1997Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1997, 6:42 PM CDT for Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 48 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 27, 1997, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Morehouse Parish, LA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 7:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Oak Ridge, LA	Several trees and power lines were blown down.

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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1358 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

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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

Local storm report, May 27, 1:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
1231 PM CST TUE MAY 27 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0438 AM    PACE                      MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97   BOLIVAR                        WINDOW BLOWN OUT OF HOUSE

0445 AM    CROSSETT                  AR   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97   ASHLEY                         POWER LINES DOWN

0455 AM    RULEVILLE                 MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   SUNFLOWER

0515 AM    LAKE VILLAGE              AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   CHICOT

0557 AM    8 W HOLLANDALE            MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   WASHINGTON

Local storm report, May 27, 1:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
1231 PM CST TUE MAY 27 1997

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0438 AM    PACE                      MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97   BOLIVAR                        WINDOW BLOWN OUT OF HOUSE

0445 AM    CROSSETT                  AR   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97   ASHLEY                         POWER LINES DOWN

0455 AM    RULEVILLE                 MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   SUNFLOWER

0515 AM    LAKE VILLAGE              AR   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   CHICOT

0557 AM    8 W HOLLANDALE            MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   WASHINGTON

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, 6:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	43 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
May 27, 5:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	62 min
May 27, 6:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	42 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.