Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1997, 3:13 PM CDT for Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 62 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
- Jul 23, 1997, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harrison County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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 nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 2879 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 KNEW 232013 RRA SVRNEW MSC047-232115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 313 PM CDT WED JUL 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...HARRISON COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 310 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL OVER THE NORTHWEST PART OF HARRISON COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF SAUCIER. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS DRIFTING TOWARDS THE SOUTH ABOUT 5 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>049-056>070-MSZ068>071-080>082-230300 THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 1155 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 1997 A MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE PERSISTS OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 80S/LOWER 90S. THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE AIRMASS OVER THE REGION WILL LIKLEY RESULT IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH A MODERATE RISK OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...GENERAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON BUT WITH LITTLE OR NO RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION PLEASE LISTEN TO TELEVISION.. RADIO..OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR VISIT THE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE AREA FORECAST OFFICE HOMEPAGE ON THE INTERNET.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>049-056>070-MSZ068>071-080>082-230300 THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 1155 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 1997 A MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE PERSISTS OVER SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 80S/LOWER 90S. THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE AIRMASS OVER THE REGION WILL LIKLEY RESULT IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH A MODERATE RISK OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...GENERAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON BUT WITH LITTLE OR NO RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION PLEASE LISTEN TO TELEVISION.. RADIO..OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR VISIT THE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE AREA FORECAST OFFICE HOMEPAGE ON THE INTERNET.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 65 min |
| Jul 23, 4:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.