Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 27, 1997, 8:41 PM CST for Carroll County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 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
- Jan 27, 1997, 8:41 PM CST (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 1997, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 801 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 280241 RRA TORJAN MSC015-280315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 841 PM CST MON JAN 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...CARROLL COUNTY AT 839 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF CARROLLTON. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND THE TORNADO WILL MOVE TROUGH CARROLLTON BY 855 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET UNDER STURDY FURNITURE. USE PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR HEAD. < 71
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 52 min |
| Jan 27, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 7:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 53 min |
| Jan 27, 7:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 8:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Leflore | 44 min |
| Jan 27, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 31 min |
| Jan 27, 8:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jan 27, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 40 min |
| Jan 27, 9:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Webster | 51 min |
| Jan 27, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 46 min |
| Jan 27, 10:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 37 min |
| Jan 27, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 53 min |
| Jan 27, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 53 min |
| Jan 27, 11:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 35 min |
| Jan 28, 12:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 69 min |
| Jan 28, 12:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 41 min |
| Jan 28, 1:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 36 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.