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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Jackson, MS

May 28, 1997Forrest County, Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1997, 4:43 PM CDT for Forrest County, Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Forrest County, MS, Jones 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

603 
WUUS1 KJAN 282146 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC067-035-282230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
443 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...JONES COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...NORTHERN FORREST COUNTY
 
AT 443 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR IN JACKSON INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IN NORTH EAST FORREST COUNTY JUST CROSSING THE JONES COUNTY LINE.
MOVEMENT IS NORTH NEAR 5 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE MOSELLE AND
ELLISVILLE AREAS BY 5 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.
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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 28, 3:49 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
349 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997

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

0755 PM    METCALF                   MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97   WASHINGTON                     TRAILER DESTROYED...TREES
                                          DOWN

0845 PM    RAYVILLE                  LA   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97   RICHLAND                       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0845 PM    YAZOO CITY                MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   YAZOO                          TREES DOWN

0945 PM    POLKVILLE                 MS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   SMITH                          TREES DOWN
1025 PM    PELAHATCHIE               MS   1 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   RANKIN                         PEA TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL

1115 PM    TERRY                     MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   HINDS                          TREES DOWN

1200 AM    HARPERVILLE               MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/97   SCOTT                          TREES DOWN

Local storm report, May 28, 3:57 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
349 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997

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

0755 PM    METCALF                   MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97   WASHINGTON                     TRAILER DESTROYED...TREES
                                          DOWN

0845 PM    RAYVILLE                  LA   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/97   RICHLAND                       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0845 PM    YAZOO CITY                MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   YAZOO                          TREES DOWN

0945 PM    POLKVILLE                 MS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   SMITH                          TREES DOWN
1025 PM    PELAHATCHIE               MS   1 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   RANKIN                         PEA TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL

1115 PM    TERRY                     MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/97   HINDS                          TREES DDOWN

1200 AM    HARPERVILLE               MS   WIND DAMAGE
05/28/97   SCOTT                          TREES DOWN

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, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	50 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, 4:58 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

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.