Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 4:24 PM CST for Jackson 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
- Jan 24, 1997, 4:24 PM CST (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 543 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
574 WUUS1 KNEW 242226 RRA SVRNEW MSC059-MSZ501-242315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 424 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS IN THE COASTAL WATERS OF... ...JACKSON COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COASTAL WATERS OF JACKSON COUNTY NEAR HORN ISLAND. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS MOSS POINT AND PASCAGOULA WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Jan 24, 10:28 AM CST, 5 hours 56 minutes before
LAZ063-069-064-070-241730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1028 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH EXPIRED OVER REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI HAS EXPIRED. MORE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CONTINUES ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA TO THE SOUTHEAST OF A SLIDELL-LA PLACE-MORGAN CITY LINE.
Special weather statement, Jan 24, 10:32 AM CST, 5 hours 52 minutes before
LAZ063-069-064-070-241730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1028 AM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH EXPIRED OVER REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI HAS EXPIRED. MORE WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CONTINUES ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA TO THE SOUTHEAST OF A SLIDELL-LA PLACE-MORGAN CITY LINE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 4:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 68 min |
| Jan 24, 4:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 6:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 67 min |
| Jan 24, 6:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 56 min |
| Jan 24, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock | 45 min |
| Jan 24, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 53 min |
| Jan 24, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 40 min |
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.