Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 480, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 1997, 4:34 PM CDT for Forrest County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 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
- Oct 24, 1997, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forrest County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 610 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 242134 RRA SVRJAN MSC035-242200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 434 PM CDT FRI OCT 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...FORREST COUNTY AT 434 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF BROOKLYN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. PEOPLE NEAR THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS DON'T DRIVE INTO WATER CROSSINGS. < 69
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, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Warren | 31 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.