Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 481, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 6:23 AM CDT for Bolivar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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 25, 1997, 6:23 AM CDT (11:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bolivar County, MS
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:22 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 6:55 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Beulah, MS |
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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 251125 RRA SVRJAN MSC011-251200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 623 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ...BOLIVAR COUNTY AT 622 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BENOIT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 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. < 75
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, Oct 25, 4:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-251600- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 440 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THREATEN THE AREA AGAIN TONIGHT... ANOTHER STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL COMBINE WITH INCREASING MOISTURE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED DAYTIME THUNDERSTORMS THAT BECOME WIDESPREAD TONIGHT. WARM AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL TEAM UP WITH INCREASING LOW LEVEL WINDS THIS EVENING TO SET THE STAGE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT A SQUALL LINE SHOULD EXIST OVER WEST LOUISIANA BY SUNSET AND THEN RAPIDLY MARCH EASTWARD INTO MISSISSIPPI BEFORE MIDNIGHT. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER BEGINNING LATE THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. MUCH OF WEST MISSISSIPPI WILL BE THREATENED THIS EVENING AND THE EASTERN SECTIONS LATER TONIGHT. THE INCREASING LOW LEVEL WINDS WILL SUPPORT ISOLATED TORNADOES THESE AREAS AND RESIDENTS OF THE MAGNOLIA STATE SHOULD GEAR UP FOR A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SCENARIO LATER TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT - HTTP://WWW.JANNWS.STATE.MS.US/ (IN LOWER CASE).
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 4:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>029-032>066-072> 074-251600- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 440 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THREATEN THE AREA AGAIN TONIGHT... ANOTHER STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL COMBINE WITH INCREASING MOISTURE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED DAYTIME THUNDERSTORMS THAT BECOME WIDESPREAD TONIGHT. WARM AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL TEAM UP WITH INCREASING LOW LEVEL WINDS THIS EVENING TO SET THE STAGE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT A SQUALL LINE SHOULD EXIST OVER WEST LOUISIANA BY SUNSET AND THEN RAPIDLY MARCH EASTWARD INTO MISSISSIPPI BEFORE MIDNIGHT. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER BEGINNING LATE THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS. MUCH OF WEST MISSISSIPPI WILL BE THREATENED THIS EVENING AND THE EASTERN SECTIONS LATER TONIGHT. THE INCREASING LOW LEVEL WINDS WILL SUPPORT ISOLATED TORNADOES THESE AREAS AND RESIDENTS OF THE MAGNOLIA STATE SHOULD GEAR UP FOR A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SCENARIO LATER TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT - HTTP://WWW.JANNWS.STATE.MS.US/ (IN LOWER CA0SE).
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 36 min |
| Oct 25, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 7:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 34 min |
| Oct 25, 8:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 11:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 53 min |
| Oct 25, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 52 min |
| Oct 25, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 41 min |
| Oct 25, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 42 min |
| Oct 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 30 min |
| Oct 25, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Webster | 32 min |
| Oct 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 30 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.