Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1997, 11:40 PM CST for Copiah County, Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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
- Jan 27, 1997, 11:40 PM CST (05:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 1997, 12:15 AM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Copiah County, MS, Hinds County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 11:55 PM CST | Hail 1 | Hazlehurst, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 801 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 52 min |
| Jan 27, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 7:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 53 min |
| Jan 27, 7:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 8:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Leflore | 44 min |
| Jan 27, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 31 min |
| Jan 27, 8:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll | 34 min |
| Jan 27, 8:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jan 27, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 40 min |
| Jan 27, 9:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Webster | 51 min |
| Jan 27, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 46 min |
| Jan 27, 10:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 53 min |
| Jan 27, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 53 min |
| Jan 28, 12:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 69 min |
| Jan 28, 12:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 41 min |
| Jan 28, 1:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 36 min |
| Jan 27, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 48 min |
| Jan 27, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia | 46 min |
| Jan 27, 7:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 46 min |
| Jan 27, 9:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 51 min |
| Jan 27, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 50 min |
| Jan 27, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 37 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.