Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 464, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 1997, 3:15 PM CDT for Madison County, Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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
- Sep 3, 1997, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Madison County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 032017 RRA SVRJAN MSC089-163-032045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 315 PM CDT WED SEP 3 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY...EASTERN YAZOO COUNTY AT 315 PM JACKSON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG INTERSTATE 55 3 MILES NORTH OF VAUGHAN. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH. 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. < 68
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, Sep 3, 10:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066- 072>074-040400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1005 AM CDT WED SEP 3 1997 A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AIRMASS ACROSS THE AREA IS NOT AS MOIST OR UNSTABLE TODAY AS TUESDAY. STILL...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. HOWEVER...NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.