Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 46, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 2, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 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
- May 2, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Choctaw County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Ackerman, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2009 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.0
- Supercell composite
- 14.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 030032 RRA TORJAN MSC019-030115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 730 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...CHOCTAW COUNTY THIS WARNING REPLACES THE EARLIER WARNING FOR NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY...AND A TORNADO WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM. AT 728 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ACKERMAN. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL EFFECT MUCH OF NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY THROUGH 815 PM. IN ADDITION...THE LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TORNADO WILL EFFECT THE REMAINDER OF CHOCTAW COUNTY...INDCLUDING THE ACKERMAN AREA. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL UP TO 2 AND HALF INCHES IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. MOVE QUICKLY TO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS. LEAVE CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDY BUILDING. < 77
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 52 min |
| May 2, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Webster | 48 min |
| May 2, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 41 min |
| May 2, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 49 min |
| May 2, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 44 min |
| May 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 42 min |
| May 2, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 2, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 47 min |
| May 2, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Webster | 43 min |
| May 2, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 41 min |
| May 2, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 57 min |
| May 2, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| May 2, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha, Webster | 3 hr |
| May 2, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Montgomery | 51 min |
| May 2, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 48 min |
| May 2, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 41 min |
| May 2, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 51 min |
| May 2, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 48 min |
| May 2, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 29 min |
| May 2, 9:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw | 3 hr |
| May 2, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 40 min |
| May 2, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 49 min |
| May 2, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 41 min |
| May 2, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 54 min |
| May 2, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 46 min |
| May 2, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 52 min |
| May 2, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 48 min |
| May 2, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 51 min |
| May 2, 11:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Grenada, Webster | 3 hr |
| May 2, 11:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 3 hr |
| May 3, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 43 min |
| May 3, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 54 min |
| May 3, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren, Yazoo | 41 min |
| May 3, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 42 min |
| May 3, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin | 49 min |
| May 3, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Scott | 53 min |
| May 3, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 50 min |
| May 3, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 53 min |
| May 3, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 63 min |
| May 3, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 44 min |
| May 3, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 42 min |
| May 3, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 53 min |
| May 3, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 45 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.