Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 15, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 2:53 PM CDT for Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pearl River County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Poplarville, MS | The Sheriff's Office reported one mobile home destroyed, two others damaged and the roof of a house damaged. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 2541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNEW 251954 RRA TORNEW MSC109-252030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 253 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ...PEARL RIVER COUNTY AT 255 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POPLARVILLE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS.. .OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Oct 25, 10:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>049-056>070-MSZ068>071-080>082-261500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 1100 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA IS FORECASTING AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES ACROSS MOST OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.. AN UPPER AIR TROUGH IS MOVING EASTWARD INTO TEXAS. STRONG LOW LEVEL FLOW OFF THE GULF OF MEXICO IS BRING IN WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIR INTO THE REGION. A STRONG JET REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST. AS THE UPPER AIR TROUGH APPROACHES A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST. PERSONS IN THE THREATENED AREAS ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND TUNE IN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...CABLE OUTLETS...OR CONTACT OUT INTERNET HOMEPAGE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH4.NOAA.GOV UNDER "FORECAST OFFICES" FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS. 23
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 11:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
LAZ034>040-046>049-056>070-MSZ068>071-080>082-261500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 1100 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA IS FORECASTING AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES ACROSS MOST OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.. AN UPPER AIR TROUGH IS MOVING EASTWARD INTO TEXAS. STRONG LOW LEVEL FLOW OFF THE GULF OF MEXICO IS BRING IN WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIR INTO THE REGION. A STRONG JET REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST. AS THE UPPER AIR TROUGH APPROACHES A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST. PERSONS IN THE THREATENED AREAS ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND TUNE IN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...CABLE OUTLETS...OR CONTACT OUT INTERNET HOMEPAGE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV UNDER FORECAST OFFICES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS. 23
The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 56 min |
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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.