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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Jackson, MS

February 21, 1997Sunflower County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 1997, 2:05 AM CST for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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: Feb 21, 1997, 2:05 AM CST (08:05 UTC)
Expired: Feb 21, 1997, 2:45 AM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Sunflower County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 21, 2:20 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Indianola, 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
Feb 20, 11:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 412 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 424 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 210806 RRA
SVRJAN
MSC133-210845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
205 AM CST FRI FEB 21 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...SUNFLOWER COUNTY
 
AT 205 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 8
MILES WEST OF INDIANOLA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH
AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH RULEVILLE...SUNFLOWER...INDIANOLA AND
INVERNESS THROUGH 240 AM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN
CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 21, 1:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	41 min
Feb 21, 1:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin, Jefferson	65 min
Feb 21, 2:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	59 min
Feb 21, 2:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	47 min
Feb 21, 2:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Hinds	61 min
Feb 21, 2:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	56 min
Feb 21, 2:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	57 min
Feb 21, 3:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson	42 min
Feb 21, 3:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	52 min
Feb 21, 3:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	54 min
Feb 21, 3:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Scott	56 min
Feb 21, 3:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Scott	44 min
Feb 21, 3:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Leake, Montgomery	65 min
Feb 21, 4:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	40 min
Feb 21, 4:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	46 min
Feb 21, 4:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Smith	43 min
Feb 21, 4:20 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba	40 min
Feb 21, 4:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Winston	45 min
Feb 21, 4:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	41 min
Feb 21, 4:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	38 min
Feb 21, 4:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee	48 min
Feb 21, 5:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	31 min
Feb 21, 5:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	52 min
Feb 21, 5:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Smith	47 min
Feb 21, 6:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1997 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.