Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 347, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1997, 3:55 PM CDT for Sunflower 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
- Jun 9, 1997, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1997, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sunflower County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 092057 RRA SVRJAN MSC133-092145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 355 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...SUNFLOWER COUNTY AT 354 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR IN JACKSON INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF INDIANOLA MOVING NORTH NEAR 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE INDIANOLA AND SUNFLOWER AREAS THROUGH 425 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS NEAR 60 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. 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, Jun 9, 10:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-100400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1000 AM CDT MON JUN 9 1997 ABUNDANT LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES TO POOL OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. COUPLED WITH A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED IN AN INTERMITTENT FASHION THROUGH TUESDAY. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO MEET SEVERE CRITERIA AT THIS TIME. WHERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR...FRUEQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS OR PUBLIC SAFETY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
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.