Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 473, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 1997, 12:59 AM CDT for Claiborne County, Warren County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 1997, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 1997, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Claiborne County, MS, Warren County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 1:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Tourneau, MS | A number of trees were blown down across the south part of warren county. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Local storm report, Oct 23, 11:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1154 PM CDT THU OCT 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1130 PM ALTON LA WIND DAMAGE
10/23/97 MADISON TALLULLAH PD REPORTED TREES
DOWN...POWERLINES DOWN AND
ONE MOBILE HOME DAMAGED.Local storm report, Oct 23, 11:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1154 PM CDT THU OCT 23 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
1130 PM ALTON LA WIND DAMAGE
10/23/97 MADISON TALLULLAH PD REPORTED TREES
DOWN...POWERLINES DOWN AND
ONE MOBILE HOME DAMAGED.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 33 min |
| Oct 23, 11:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 39 min |
| Oct 24, 12:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 12:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 1:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 25 min |
| Oct 24, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 31 min |
| Oct 24, 1:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 31 min |
| Oct 24, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds | 28 min |
| Oct 24, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Oct 24, 1:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 33 min |
| Oct 24, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 27 min |
| Oct 24, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 52 min |
| Oct 24, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 29 min |
| Oct 24, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 26 min |
| Oct 23, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 26 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.