Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 521, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1997, 10:54 AM CST for Neshoba County, Newton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports 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
- Nov 1, 1997, 10:54 AM CST (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1997, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 11:30 AM CST | Hail 1 | Neshoba, MS | |
| Nov 1, 12:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Conehatta, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 10:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 1991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 011655 RRA SVRJAN MSC099-101-011800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1054 AM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...NESHOBA COUNTY...NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTY AT 1053 AM RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES WEST OF UNION TO 10 MILES WEST OF NESHOBA MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE NESHOBA AND UNION AREAS BY 1115 AM. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. 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. < 74
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 31 min |
| Nov 1, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 9:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 40 min |
| Nov 1, 9:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 50 min |
| Nov 1, 9:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 53 min |
| Nov 1, 9:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 44 min |
| Nov 1, 9:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 55 min |
| Nov 1, 10:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 40 min |
| Nov 1, 10:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 30 min |
| Nov 1, 10:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 53 min |
| Nov 1, 10:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 10:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 44 min |
| Nov 1, 11:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 59 min |
| Nov 1, 11:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 51 min |
| Nov 1, 11:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 11:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 55 min |
| Nov 1, 11:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 42 min |
| Nov 1, 11:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 52 min |
| Nov 1, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 11:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 63 min |
| Nov 1, 12:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 52 min |
| Nov 1, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 62 min |
| Nov 1, 12:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 32 min |
| Nov 1, 12:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 58 min |
| Nov 1, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 51 min |
| Nov 1, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 51 min |
| Nov 1, 1:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 69 min |
| Nov 1, 1:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 62 min |
| Nov 1, 1:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 62 min |
| Nov 1, 1:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 2:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 43 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.