Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 5:20 PM CDT for Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 16, 1997, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oktibbeha County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkville, MS | Several trees and power lines 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 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
447 WUUS1 KJAN 162222 RRA SVRJAN MSC105-162300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 520 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...OKTIBBEHA COUNTY AT 519PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 82 IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. STARKVILLE SHOULD BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM AFTER 545 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. < 77
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.