Alert archive / Louisiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 7, 1997, 10:16 AM CST for Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 29 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
- Feb 7, 1997, 10:16 AM CST (16:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 7, 1997, 10:45 AM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Catahoula Parish, LA
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
057 WUUS1 KJAN 071617 RRA SVRJAN LAC025-071645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1016 AM CST FRI FEB 7 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ...NORTHERN CATAHOULA PARISH AT 1015 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST CATAHOULA PARISH NEAR AIMWELL. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT NEAR 50 MPH. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AS WELL AS STRONG WINDS. THE TOWN OF HARRISONBURG IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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. < 65
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, Feb 7, 9:49 AM CST, 27 minutes before
MSZ001>082-080400- MISSISSIPPI THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 950 AM CST FRI FEB 7 1997 A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE MOVING FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS THIS MORNING TO THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BY LATE TONIGHT. THE COMBINATION OF THIS SYSTEM AND AN INCREASINGLY MOIST FLOW OF AIR OFF THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL LEAD TO WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIND...AND A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL. THE MAIN THREAT OF ANY HAIL WOULD BE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...AND ISOLATED STORMS IN THIS AREA COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL OF DIME SIZE OR GREATER. HOWEVER...ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THEREFORE...THE ACTIVATION OF SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL LIKELY NOT BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT.l
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.