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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Jackson, MS

March 2, 1997Webster County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 1997, 3:47 PM CST for Webster County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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
Mar 2, 1997, 3:47 PM CST (21:47 UTC)
Expired
Mar 2, 1997, 4:30 PM CST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Whole counties

County Webster County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1997-03-02Temperature 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1997-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 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
1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 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.

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 022149 RRA
TORJAN
MSC155-022230-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
347 PM CST SUN MAR 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...WEBSTER COUNTY
 
AT 347 PM CST JACKSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELLEFONTAINE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ON THIS PATH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLE
TORNADO WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE BELLEFONTAINE AREA BY 410 PM CST.
 
 
SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR APARTMENT.  A>VOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD FROM FLYING
DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS OR PILLOWS.
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 2, 3:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll, Montgomery32 min
Mar 2, 3:31 PM CSTTornado WarningJANMontgomery29 min
Mar 2, 3:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANGrenada35 min
Mar 2, 3:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHolmes49 min
Mar 2, 4:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAttala44 min
Mar 2, 4:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll, Montgomery47 min
Mar 2, 4:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChoctaw48 min
Mar 2, 5:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll31 min
Mar 2, 5:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANYazoo43 min
Mar 2, 5:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANHolmes44 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.