Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS New Orleans, LA

January 27, 1997Amite County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1997, 3:24 PM CST for Amite County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 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: Jan 27, 1997, 3:24 PM CST (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1997, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Whole counties

County Amite County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 27, 3:55 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster, MS

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
Jan 27, 1:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 406 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 481 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNEW 272124 RRA
SVRNEW
MSC005-272200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
324 PM CST MON JAN 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CST
FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...NORTHERN AND WESTERN AMITE COUNTY
 
AT 325 PM CST...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHWESTERN AMITE COUNTY...JUST TO THE NORTHEAST OF GLOSTER.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE BEWELCOME AND
SMITHDALE.
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 27, 2:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite, Wilkinson	25 min
Jan 27, 4:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Amite	42 min
Jan 27, 4:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike	48 min
Jan 27, 5:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1997 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.