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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 399, NWS Jackson, MS

July 4, 1997Sunflower County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1997, 9:16 PM CDT for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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
Jul 4, 1997, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Sunflower County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 4, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1997-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2606 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1997-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.2
Supercell composite
-2.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jul 4, 7:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
MSZ037-032-039-033-029-038-050115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
706 PM CDT FRI JUL 4 1997

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 565 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

DURING THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS...THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER NORTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI HAS BEEN ON THE DECREASE.  THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTO
WATCH FOR WEBSTER...CHOCTAW...OKTIBBEHA...ATTALA...WINSTON...AND NOXUBEE
COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWashington42 min
Jul 4, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANIssaquena, Sharkey40 min
Jul 4, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHumphreys40 min
Jul 4, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWarren, Yazoo35 min
Jul 4, 10:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHinds, Madison41 min
Jul 4, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAttala28 min
Jul 4, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLeake, Neshoba42 min
Jul 4, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANWinston51 min
Jul 5, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNoxubee51 min
Jul 5, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLamar33 min
Jul 4, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMorehouse, West Carroll54 min
Jul 4, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANEast Carroll36 min
Jul 4, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningJANAshley41 min
Jul 4, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningJANAshley38 min
Jul 4, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningJANAshley, Chicot45 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.