Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 2:45 PM CDT for Itawamba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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
- Jun 16, 1997, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Itawamba County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulton, MS | A few trees and power lines were blown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 2338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 9.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 161947 RRA SVRMEM MSC057-162015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 245 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...ITAWAMBA COUNTY AT 242 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MOVING INTO WESTERN ITAWAMBA COUNTY NEAR MANTACHIE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT FULTON AND FAIRVIEW BETWEEN 300 AND 315 PM. THIS STORM HAS BLOWN POWER LINES DOWN IN SALTILLO AT 240 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 16, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss, Union | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Union | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 17 min |
| Jun 16, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 31 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.