Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1997, 5:21 PM CDT for Panola County, Mississippi. It was in force for 64 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
- Jun 8, 1997, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1997, 6:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Panola County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 5:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Como, MS | Trees and power lines were knocked down in Como, about 4 miles north of Batesville and just north and west of Sardis. |
| Jun 8, 6:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Batesville, 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
886 WUUS1 KMEM 082222 RRA SVRMEM MSC107-082325- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 521 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 625 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI ...PANOLA COUNTY AT 519 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS JUST EAST OF CRENSHAW IN NORTHWEST PANOLA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH...AND WILL AFFECT THE LONGTOWN..PARKSPLACE AND PLEASANT GROVE AREAS IN NORTHWEST PANOLA COUNTY THROUGH 6 PM. .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 DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.