Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 378, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT for Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 45 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 26, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morehouse Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
417 WUUS1 KJAN 262116 RRA SVRJAN LAC067-262200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 415 PM CDT THU JUN 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ...MOREHOUSE PARISH AT 415 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED NEAR MER ROUGE...MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. MER ROUGE IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS...AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. OTHER STRONG STORMS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN MOREHOUSE PARISH. PEOPLE NEAR THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS DONT DRIVE INTO WATER CROSSINGS. <
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 26, 10:20 AM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-270400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1020 AM CDT THU JUN 26 1997 THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS LITTLE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS OVER MUCH OF THE REGION. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS PRODUCING LOCALIZED LOW AREA FLOODING AND ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT OVER SOUTHEAST PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI WHERE AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL BE ACTIVE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OVER MOST OF THE AREA....IT PROBABLY NOT BE NECESSARY TO REQUEST THE ASSISTANCE OF STORM SPOTTERS ...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...OR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL IN SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION AND WARNNG ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 10:27 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-270400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1020 AM CDT THU JUN 26 1997 THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS LITTLE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS OVER MUCH OF THE REGION. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS PRODUCING LOCALIZED LOW AREA FLOODING AND ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT OVER SOUTHEAST PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI WHERE AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL BE ACTIVE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OVER MOST OF THE AREA....IT PROBABLY NOT BE NECESSARY TO REQUEST THE ASSISTANCE OF STORM SPOTTERS ...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...OR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL IN SEVERE WEATHER DETECTION AND WARNNG ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
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.