Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 462, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1997, 4:32 PM CDT for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 31, 1997, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1997, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yazoo County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
391 WUUS1 KJAN 312134 RRA SVRJAN MSC163-312215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 432 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...YAZOO COUNTY AT 430 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF HOLLY BLUFF. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL AFFECT HIGHWAY 3 FROM SATARTIA TO YAZOO CITY BY 5 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. <
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, Aug 31, 2:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
MSZ042>044-048>050-312115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 218 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 1997 ...THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE SKY PARADE ACTIVITIES AT JACKSON AIRPORT... AT 220 PM RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TWO MILES NORTH OF THE AIRPORT...NEAR BRANDON AND SOUTH JACKSON. THEY WERE BUILDING TOWARD THE AIRPORT. THEY SHOULD AFFECT THOMPSON FIELD THROUGH 330 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AS THEY MOVE SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 2:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
MSZ042>044-048>050-312115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 218 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 1997 ...THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE SKY PARADE ACTIVITIES AT JACKSON AIRPORT... AT 220 PM RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TWO MILES NORTH OF THE AIRPORT...NEAR BRANDON AND SOUTH JACKSON. THEY WERE BUILDING TOWARD THE AIRPORT. THEY SHOULD AFFECT THOMPSON FIELD THROUGH 330 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING STR"IKES...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AS THEY MOVE SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
Local storm report, Aug 31, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
320 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
235 PM 2 N BROOKHAVEN MS WIND DAMAGE
08/20/97 LINCOLN ROOF BLOWN OFF HOUSE.
MARBLE SIZE HAIL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 53 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.