Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 330, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1997, 3:10 PM CDT for Franklin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 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 28, 1997, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1997, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin 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 28, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
944 WUUS1 KJAN 282012 RRA SVRJAN MSC037-282100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 310 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 310 PM...JACKSON DOPPLER RADAR INIDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST ENTERING SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR ROXIE AND MEADVILLE BY 330 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. < 68
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 28, 10:10 AM CDT, 5 hours before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-290400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1010 AM CDT WED MAY 28 1997 THE AIR MASS REMAINS HUMID AND UNSTABLE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AS A COLD FRONT LINGERS TO THE WEST. SCATTERED TO BROKEN CLOUDS WILL ALLOW AFTERNOON HEATING AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON. SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES EXIST FROM EARLIER CONVECTION AND THESE MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG...POSSIBLY SEVERE...THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A WEATHER DISTURBANCE OVER OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS THIS MORNING WILL TRACK TO THE EAST DURING THE DAY AND INCREASE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NECESSARY LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, May 28, 10:31 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-290400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1010 AM CDT WED MAY 28 1997 THE AIR MASS REMAINS HUMID AND UNSTABLE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AS A COLD FRONT LINGERS TO THE WEST. SCATTERED TO BROKEN CLOUDS WILL ALLOW AFTERNOON HEATING AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON. SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES EXIST FROM EARLIER CONVECTION AND THESE MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG...POSSIBLY SEVERE...THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A WEATHER DISTURBANCE OVER OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS THIS MORNING WILL TRACK TO THE EAST DURING THE DAY AND INCREASE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NECESSARY LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 45 min |
| May 27, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 68 min |
| May 27, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Yazoo | 50 min |
| May 27, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 49 min |
| May 27, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 32 min |
| May 27, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin, Scott | 49 min |
| May 27, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 49 min |
| May 27, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 54 min |
| May 27, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott | 61 min |
| May 27, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott | 61 min |
| May 27, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower, Washington | 55 min |
| May 27, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 49 min |
| May 27, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 45 min |
| May 27, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 42 min |
| May 27, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 57 min |
| May 27, 10:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 40 min |
| May 27, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Yazoo | 63 min |
| May 27, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 44 min |
| May 27, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin | 67 min |
| May 27, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 62 min |
| May 27, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 34 min |
| May 27, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 45 min |
| May 27, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 29 min |
| May 27, 11:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 49 min |
| May 27, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 43 min |
| May 27, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 55 min |
| May 27, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 55 min |
| May 28, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 41 min |
| May 28, 12:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 37 min |
| May 28, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 50 min |
| May 28, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 47 min |
| May 28, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 65 min |
| May 28, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 44 min |
| May 28, 12:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 37 min |
| May 28, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 55 min |
| May 28, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 37 min |
| May 28, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 41 min |
| May 28, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 38 min |
| May 28, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 47 min |
| May 28, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 47 min |
| May 28, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 46 min |
| May 28, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 52 min |
| May 28, 6:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Washington | 3 hr |
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.