Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1997, 8:23 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 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 20, 1997, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1997, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lauderdale County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 8:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Daleville, MS | Numerous trees 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 nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2015 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 210126 RRA SVRJAN MSC075-210215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 823 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...CENTRAL AND NORTHERN LAUDERDALE COUNTY AT 822 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN JACKSON INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MERIDIAN MOVING EAST NEAR 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE BAILEY...DALEVILLE AND LAUDERDALE AREAS BY 845 PM. WIND DAMAGE IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL..8.DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. < 68
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 57 min |
| Jun 20, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 51 min |
| Jun 20, 9:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 53 min |
| Jun 20, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 28 min |
| Jun 20, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Oktibbeha | 48 min |
| Jun 20, 11:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Oktibbeha, Winston | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 44 min |
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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.