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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Jackson, MS

May 14, 1997Attala County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1997, 5:15 PM CDT for Attala County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 min. 2 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: May 14, 1997, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Attala County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 14, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Mc Adams, MS	This short track tornado moved east-southeast through the town of Mc Adams. Many trees were blown down or uprooted. Some of the trees fell on buildings. Minor damage was down to a few buildings and many windows were blown out of a school.
May 14, 5:40 PM CDT	Hail 2	Mc Adams, MS	Many windows were broken out by hail. severa houses had roof damage and the roof of a school was damaged.

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 14, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAN 142219 RRA
TORJAN
MSC007-142300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
515 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...ATTALA COUNTY
 
AT 514 PM A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS
LOCATED ON THE BLACK RIVER DUE WEST OF KOSCIUSKO MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST
AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE ALONG HIGHWAY 12 THROUGH THE
SALLIS AND MCADAMS COMMUNITIES BY 530 PM AND SHOULD PASS JUST SOUTH OF
KOSCIUSKO BY 540 PM.
 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH |OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF
NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
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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 14, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	49 min
May 14, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	38 min
May 14, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	52 min
May 14, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	50 min
May 14, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	41 min
May 14, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	31 min
May 14, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	48 min
May 14, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	52 min
May 14, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	54 min
May 14, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba	46 min
May 14, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	39 min
May 14, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	34 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.