Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 77, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 5:43 PM CDT for Webster County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webster County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 5:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Montevista, MS | Several homes had structural damage from strong winds. |
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 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 252244 RRA TORJAN MSC155-252315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 543 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY AT 540 PM... JACKSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLEFONTAINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS THE WEBSTER-CALHOUN COUNTY LINE BY 6 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. < 68
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 6:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 37 min |
| Oct 25, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 36 min |
| Oct 25, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 7:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 34 min |
| Oct 25, 8:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 11:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 53 min |
| Oct 25, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 52 min |
| Oct 25, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 41 min |
| Oct 25, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 42 min |
| Oct 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 30 min |
| Oct 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower | 30 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.