Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 1997, 2:29 AM CST for Copiah County, Hinds County, Mississippi. It was in force for 61 min. 6 reports 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, 2:29 AM CST (08:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1997, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 61 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 2:55 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Raymond, MS | |
| Feb 21, 2:57 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | Clinton, MS | |
| Feb 21, 3:00 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Barlow, MS | |
| Feb 21, 3:05 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Byram, MS | |
| Feb 21, 3:10 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton, MS | |
| Feb 21, 3:10 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Byram, 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, 11:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 210830 RRA SVRJAN MSC029-049-210930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 229 AM CST FRI FEB 21 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...COPIAH COUNTY...HINDS COUNTY AT 225 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDCIATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR REDWOOD TO PATTISON...WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN HINDS AND COPIAH COUNTIES BY 245 AM. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE BOLTON...RAYMOND AND HAZELHURST AREAS BY 300 AM. THE LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THESE STORMS KNOCKED DOWN POWER LINES 8 MILES SOUTH OF VICKSBURG AT 222 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. < ` & 68
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, 2:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 40 min |
| Feb 21, 2:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 47 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
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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.