Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 358, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1997, 4:01 PM CDT for Catahoula Parish, Concordia Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 59 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 19, 1997, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 192103 RRA SVRJAN LAC025-029-192200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 401 PM CDT THU JUN 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ...CATAHOULA PARISH...SOUTHERN CONCORDIA PARISH AT 400 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR IN JACKSON INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTEREY MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL APPROACH THE EVA AND MONTEREY AREAS THROUGH 445 PM. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. 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. < 71
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 19, 10:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-200400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1010 AM CDT THU JUN 19 1997 THE AIRMASS OVER MISSISSIPPI IS GENERALLY STABLE...WITH WEAK HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE. AFTERNOON HEATING WILL HELP TO DESTABLIZE THE AIRMASS SLIGHTLY. THIS COULD PRODUCE SOME WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...BUT CONDITIONS WILL NOT SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...HAM RADIO OPERATORS ...AND STORM SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NECESSARY THROUGH THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Tensas | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Madison | 55 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.