Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 508, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 1997, 2:29 AM CST for Jasper County, Smith County, Mississippi. It was in force for 46 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 26, 1997, 2:29 AM CST (08:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 1997, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, MS, Smith County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 3555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.1
- Supercell composite
- 24.5
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
Special weather statement, Oct 26, 1:36 AM CST, 53 minutes before
LAZ016-024>026-MSZ025>029-032-033-035>066-072>074-260900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 136 AM CST SUN OCT 26 1997 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH 775... CARROLL... GRENADA... HOLMES... HUMPHREYS... ISSAQUENA... LEFLORE... MADISON LA... MONTGOMERY... SHARKEY... WEBSTER... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN TORNADO WATCH 775 VALID UNTIL 5 AM CST.. ADAMS... ATTALA... CATAHOULA... CHOCTAW... CLAIBORNE... CLARKE... CONCORDIA... COPIAH... COVINGTON... FORREST... FRANKLIN MS... HINDS... JASPER... JEFFERSON DAVIS... JEFFERSON... JONES... KEMPER... LAMAR... LAUDERDALE... LAWRENCE... LEAKE... LINCOLN... MADISON MS... MARION... NESHOBA... NEWTON... NOXUBEE... OKTIBBEHA... RANKIN... SCOTT... SIMPSON... SMITH... TENSAS... WARREN... WINSTON... YAZOO... A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI HAS ENDED THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE DELTA REGION. ADDITIONAL COUNTIES WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE WATCH BY 300 AM.
Special weather statement, Oct 26, 1:45 AM CST, 44 minutes before
LAZ016-024>026-MSZ025>029-032-033-035>066-072>074-260900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 136 AM CST SUN OCT 26 1997 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH 775... CARROLL... GRENADA... HOLMES... HUMPHREYS... ISSAQUENA... LEFLORE... MADISON LA... MONTGOMERY... SHARKEY... WEBSTER... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN TORNADO WATCH 775 VALID UNTIL 5 AM CST.. ADAMS... ATTALA... CATAHOULA... CHOCTAW... CLAIBORNE... CLARKE... CONCORDIA... COPIAH... COVINGTON... FORREST... FRANKLIN MS... HINDS... JASPER... JEFFERSON DAVIS... JEFFERSON... JONES... KEMPER... LAMAR... LAUDERDALE... LAWRENCE... LEAKE... LINCOLN... MADISON MS... MARION... NESHOBA... NEWTON... NOXUBEE... OKTIBBEHA... RANKIN... SCOTT... SIMPSON... SMITH... TENSAS... WARREN... WINSTON... YAZOO... A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI HAS ENDED THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE DELTA REGION. ADDITIONAL COUNTIES WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE WATCH BY 300 AM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 58 min |
| Oct 25, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 52 min |
| Oct 25, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Leflore | 66 min |
| Oct 25, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 28 min |
| Oct 25, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 47 min |
| Oct 26, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 43 min |
| Oct 26, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 54 min |
| Oct 26, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 66 min |
| Oct 26, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 42 min |
| Oct 26, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott, Smith | 68 min |
| Oct 26, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.