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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 547, NWS Jackson, MS

December 23, 1997Jones County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 1997, 7:05 AM CST for Jones County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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
Dec 23, 1997, 7:05 AM CST (13:05 UTC)
Expired
Dec 23, 1997, 7:45 AM CST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Jones County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1997-12-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1997-12-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

483 
WUUS1 KJAN 231306
SVRJAN
MSC067-231345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
705 AM CST TUE DEC 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...JONES COUNTY
 
AT 704 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF LAUREL MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL BE NEAR ELLISVILLE BY 725
AM.
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS OCCURRED IN HATTIESBURG AT 645 AM WITH THIS
STORM AS REPORTED BY THE HATTIESBURG EOC...AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES
WAS REPORTED NEAR PETAL BY THE PETAL POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 658 AM.
 
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.
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 23, 6:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANForrest31 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.