Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1997, 4:04 PM CST for Madison Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 26 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
- Jan 27, 1997, 4:04 PM CST (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 1997, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison Parish, LA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 481 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 272203 RRA SVRJAN LAC065-272230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 404 PM CST MON JAN 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ...MADISON PARISH AT 400 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF TALLULLAH MOVING NORTHEAST 45 MILES AN HOURS. THIS STORM WILL PASS U.S. HIGHWAY 65 BY 415 PM CST. PEOPLE NEAR THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS DON'T DRIVE INTO WATER CROSSINGS. < 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, Jan 27, 10:05 AM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before
MSZ001>082-281200- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1005 AM CST MON JAN 27 1997 AS WARM MOIST AIR BEGINS TO MOVE NORTHWARD ONCE AGAIN AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS STATES...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE INCREASING ACROSS MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL WILL BE GREATEST OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE STATE... ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM TUNICA TO WINONA TO MERIDIAN. HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. ACTIVATION OF SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONNEL MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 10:07 AM CST, 5 hours 57 minutes before
MSZ001>082-281200- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1005 AM CST MON JAN 27 1997 AS WARM MOIST AIR BEGINS TO MOVE NORTHWARD ONCE AGAIN AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS STATES...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE INCREASING ACROSS MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL WILL BE GREATEST OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE STATE... ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM TUNICA TO WINONA TO MERIDIAN. HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. ACTIVATION OF SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS.. .AND CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONNEL MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 4:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 28 min |
| Jan 27, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 40 min |
| Jan 27, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 36 min |
| Jan 27, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Louisiana, 1997Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.