Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 71, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 1997, 12:37 AM CDT for Copiah County, Mississippi. It was in force for 53 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
- Oct 24, 1997, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 1997, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Copiah County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 1:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wesson, MS | Trees and power ines were blown down. |
| Oct 24, 1:20 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Spgs, MS | Trees and power lines were blown down in Crystal Springs and several other locations in northern Copiah county. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 240539 RRA TORJAN MSC029-240630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1237 AM CDT FRI OCT 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...COPIAH COUNTY AT 1235 AM...JACKSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PATTISON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHWESTERN COPIAH COUNTY. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. PEOPLE IN ITS PATH SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY! IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. 2 GET UNDER STURDY FURNITURE. USE PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR HEAD. < 63
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 33 min |
| Oct 23, 11:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 39 min |
| Oct 24, 12:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Warren | 31 min |
| Oct 24, 1:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 25 min |
| Oct 24, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 31 min |
| Oct 24, 1:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 31 min |
| Oct 24, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds | 28 min |
| Oct 24, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Oct 24, 1:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 33 min |
| Oct 24, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 27 min |
| Oct 24, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 52 min |
| Oct 24, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 29 min |
| Oct 24, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 26 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.