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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Jackson, MS

May 2, 1997Choctaw County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 2, 1997, 9:09 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 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: May 2, 1997, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 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 02:11 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.

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, 2.2 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.

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 030211 RRA
TORJAN
MSC019-030300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
909 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...CHOCTAW COUNTY
 
AT 907 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF FRENCH CAMP.
THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR
FRENCH CAMP AND ACKERMAN BY 940 PM.
 
SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR APARTMENT.  AVOID 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.

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, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Choctaw	45 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, 9:27 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.