Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1997, 6:23 PM CST for Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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, 6:23 PM CST (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 1997, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hinds County, MS
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, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 801 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 280026 COR SVRJAN MSC049-280100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 623 PM CST MON JAN 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...HINDS COUNTY AT 621 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF BOLTON. THE STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE TO NEAR NEAR POCOHONTAS BY 640 PM. 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. < 74
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 52 min |
| Jan 27, 7:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 53 min |
| Jan 27, 7:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 8:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Leflore | 44 min |
| Jan 27, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 31 min |
| Jan 27, 8:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll | 34 min |
| Jan 27, 8:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jan 27, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 40 min |
| Jan 27, 9:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Webster | 51 min |
| Jan 27, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 46 min |
| Jan 27, 10:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 53 min |
| Jan 27, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 53 min |
| Jan 27, 11:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 35 min |
| Jan 28, 12:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 69 min |
| Jan 28, 12:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 41 min |
| Jan 28, 1:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 36 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.