Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 539, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 1997, 1:57 PM CST for Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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
- Nov 1, 1997, 1:57 PM CST (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1997, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Forrest County, MS, Lamar County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 2011 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
881 WUUS1 KJAN 011958 RRA SVRJAN MSC035-073-012045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 157 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...FORREST COUNTY...LAMAR COUNTY AT 156 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF LUMBERTON MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 59 BY 205 PM... MOVE INTO SOUTHERN FORREST COUNTY BY 210 PM....AND APPROACH BROOKLYN BY 230 PM. 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
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, Nov 1, 12:50 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
MSZ018-019-025-027-034>037-040>043-047-048-053-059-060-011945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1250 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 783 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN MISSISSIPPI... CARROLL...LEFLORE...MONTGOMERY...SUNFLOWER...WASHINGTON...ATTALA... CLAIBORNE...HINDS...HOLMES...HUMPHREYS...ISSAQUENA...MADISON... RANKIN...SHARKEY...WARREN...YAZOO...ADAMS...FRANKLIN. ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 783 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI... CHOCTAW...LOWNDES...OKTIBBEHA...WEBSTER...CLARKE...COPIAH...JASPER... JEFFERSON...KEMPER...LAUDERDALE...LEAKE...NESHOBA...NEWTON... NOXUBEE...SCOTT...SIMPSON...SMITH...WINSTON...AMITE...COVINGTON...FORREST ...GEORGE...GREEN...JEFFERSON DAVIS...JONES...LAMAR...LAWRENCE...LINCOLN...MARION..PERRY...PIKE... WALTHALL...WAYNE...WILKINSON.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 1:02 PM CST, 55 minutes before
MSZ018-019-025-027-034>037-040>043-047-048-053-059-060-011945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1250 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 783 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN MISSISSIPPI... CARROLL...LEFLORE...MONTGOMERY...SUNFLOWER...WASHINGTON...ATTALA... CLAIBORNE...HINDS...HOLMES...HUMPHREYS...ISSAQUENA...MADISON... RANKIN...SHARKEY...WARREN...YAZOO...ADAMS...FRANKLIN. ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 783 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI... CHOCTAW...LOWNDES...OKTIBBEHA...WEBSTER...CLARKE...COPIAH...JASPER... JEFFERSON...KEMPER...LAUDERDALE...LEAKE...NESHOBA...NEWTON... NOXUBEE...SCOTT...SIMPSON...SMITH...WINSTON...AMITE...COVINGTON...FORREST ...GEORGE...GREEN...JEFFERSON DAVIS...JONES...LAMAR...LAWRENCE...LINCOLN...MARION..PERRY...PIKE... WALTHALL...WAYNE...WILKINSON.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 1:14 PM CST, 43 minutes before
MSZ018-019-025-027-034>037-040>043-047-048-053-059-060-012115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 114 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 783 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN MISSISSIPPI... CARROLL...LEFLORE...MONTGOMERY...SUNFLOWER...WASHINGTON...ATTALA... CLAIBORNE...HINDS...HOLMES...HUMPHREYS...ISSAQUENA...MADISON... RANKIN...SHARKEY...WARREN...YAZOO...ADAMS...FRANKLIN...JEFFERSON. ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 783 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI... CHOCTAW...LOWNDES...OKTIBBEHA...WEBSTER...CLARKE...COPIAH...JASPER... KEMPER...LAUDERDALE...LEAKE...NESHOBA...NEWTON...NOXUBEE ...SCOTT... SIMPSON...SMITH...WINSTON...AMITE...COVINGTON...FORREST...GEORGE ...GREEN...JEFFERSON...DAVIS...JONES...LAMAR...LAWRENCE...LINCOLN... MARION..PERRY...PIKE...WALTHALL...WAYNE...WILKINSON.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 1:17 PM CST, 40 minutes before
MSZ018-019-025-027-034>037-040>043-047-048-053-059-060-012115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 114 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 783 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN MISSISSIPPI... CARROLL...LEFLORE...MONTGOMERY...SUNFLOWER...WASHINGTON...ATTALA... CLAIBORNE...HINDS...HOLMES...HUMPHREYS...ISSAQUENA...MADISON... RANKIN...SHARKEY...WARREN...YAZOO...ADAMS...FRANKLIN...JEFFERSON. ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 783 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI... CHOCTAW...LOWNDES...OKTIBBEHA...WEBSTER...CLARKE...COPIAH...JASPER... KEMPER...LAUDERDALE...LEAKE...NESHOBA...NEWTON...NOXUBEE ...SCOTT... SIMPSON...SMITH...WINSTON...AMITE...COVINGTON...FORREST...GEORGE ...GREEN...JEFFERSON...DAVIS...JONES...LAMAR...LAWRENCE...LINCOLN... MARION..PERRY...PIKE...WALTHALL...WAYNE...WILKINSON.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 1:43 PM CST, 14 minutes before
MSZ029-031>033-038-039-044>046-050>052-054>056-062-063-012015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 143 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 783 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN MISSISSIPPI... CHOCTAW...LOWNDES...OKTIBBEHA...WEBSTER...COPIAH... KEMPER...LAUDERDALE...LEAKE...NESHOBA...NEWTON...NOXUBEE ...SCOTT... SIMPSON...SMITH...WINSTON...AMITE...LAWRENCE...LINCOLN... WALTHALL. ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 783 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI... CLARKE...JASPER...COVINGTON...FORREST...GEORGE...GREENE...JEFFERSON DAVIS...JONES...LAMAR...MARION...WAYNE.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 1:43 PM CST, 14 minutes before
MSZ029-031>033-038-039-044>046-050>052-054>056-062-063-012015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO ADD PERRY COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 143 PM CST SAT NOV 1 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 783 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN MISSISSIPPI... CHOCTAW...LOWNDES...OKTIBBEHA...WEBSTER...COPIAH... KEMPER...LAUDERDALE...LEAKE...NESHOBA...NEWTON...NOXUBEE ...SCOTT... SIMPSON...SMITH...WINSTON...AMITE...LAWRENCE...LINCOLN... WALTHALL. ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 783 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI... CLARKE...JASPER...COVINGTON...FORREST...GEORGE...GREENE...JEFFERSON DAVIS...JONES...LAMAR...MARION...PERRY...WAYNE.
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, 10:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton | 66 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, 2:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.