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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 341, NWS Jackson, MS

May 28, 1997Hinds County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1997, 8:43 PM CDT for Hinds 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, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Hinds County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 35 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: 1803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.8

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The text

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

977 
WUUS1 KJAN 290145 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC049-290230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
843 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...HINDS COUNTY
 
AT 843 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF RAYMOND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL APPROACH CLINTON BY 9 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, 4 hours 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, 4 hours 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

Local storm report, May 28, 7:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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

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

0520 PM    5 E BOGUE CHITTO          MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/97   LINCOLN                        REPORTED BY BROOKHAVEN MHP

0520 PM    BROOKHAVEN                MS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/97   LINCOLN                        REPORTED BY LINCOLN C.D.

0602 PM    5 S HARRISONBURG          LA   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/97   CATAHOULA                      REPORTED IN THE SANDY LAKE
                                          COMMUNITY BY THE PUBLIC.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	43 min
May 28, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Warren	43 min
May 28, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	31 min
May 28, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	47 min
May 28, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Rankin	53 min

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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.