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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 346, NWS Jackson, MS

May 28, 1997Madison County, Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1997, 10:07 PM CDT for Madison County, Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 53 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 28, 1997, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Madison County, MS, Rankin County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 10:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ridgeland, MS	A couple of trees and numerous large limbs 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 17 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 290310 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC089-121-290400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1007 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...MADISON COUNTY...RANKIN COUNTY
 
AT 1005 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NINE MILES
SOUTHWEST OF MADISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD MOVE
ACROSS SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY NEAR RIDGELAND AND APPROACH FANNIN BY
1030 PM.
 
PEOPLE NEAR THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES ORX ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL
THE STORM HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS DON'T DRIVE INTO WATER CROSSINGS.
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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, 7:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 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, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	47 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1997 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.