Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1997, 5:41 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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
- May 2, 1997, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calhoun County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 6:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Calhoun City, MS | Several large trees were blown down. |
| May 2, 6:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Vardaman, MS | Numerous trees were knocked down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 701 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 35 min |
| May 2, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 44 min |
| May 2, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 48 min |
| May 2, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 49 min |
| May 2, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 49 min |
| May 2, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 33 min |
| May 2, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 33 min |
| May 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 35 min |
| May 2, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 50 min |
| May 2, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 35 min |
| May 2, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Clay | 48 min |
| May 2, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Clay | 31 min |
| May 2, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 30 min |
| May 2, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Randolph | 50 min |
| May 2, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.