Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 349, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 2:17 PM CDT for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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 16, 1997, 2:17 PM CDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bolivar County, MS
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 2338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 9.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 161918 RRA SVRJAN MSC011-162000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 217 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...BOLIVAR COUNTY AT 216 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE LINE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE ROSEDALE AND SHELBY AREAS BY 235 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 HO^ME OR BUSINESS. < 74
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 16, 10:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-170400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1045 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH AFTERNOON HEATING...PLENTIFUL MOISTURE AND AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE NORTH OF A BASTROP LOUISIANA TO GREENVILLE TO GRENADA MISSISSIPPI LINE WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...STORM SPOTTERS...AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS FOR SEVERE WEATHER CONCERNS MAY BE NECESSARY THI`S AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 10:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-170400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1045 AM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH AFTERNOON HEATING...PLENTIFUL MOISTURE AND AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE NORTH OF A BASTROP LOUISIANA TO GREENVILLE TO GRENADA MISSISSIPPI LINE WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...STORM SPOTTERS...AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS FOR SEVERE WEATHER CONCERNS MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 40 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.