Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1997, 5:37 AM CDT for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1997, 5:37 AM CDT (10:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1997, 6:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tallahatchie County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:39 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.
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 17, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 2715 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 171040 RRA SVRMEM MSC135-171110- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 537 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 610 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI ...TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY AT 535 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS NEAR WEBB. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS CHARLESTON AND PAYNES BY 6 AM. .WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLVIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 17, 1:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
158 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 AM MORO AR WIND DAMAGE
06/17/97 LEE TWO TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN
0130 AM FORREST CITY AR WIND DAMAGE
06/17/97 ST FRANCIS NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWNLocal storm report, Jun 17, 2:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
158 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 AM MORO AR WIND DAMAGE
06/17/97 LEE TWO TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN
0130 AM FORREST CITY AR WIND DAMAGE
06/17/97 ST FRANCIS NUMERONUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWNSpecial weather statement, Jun 17, 3:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
TNZ048>054-088>092-170850- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 333 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 ...THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER ENDING ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER... THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED OVER PARTS OF WEST TENNESSEE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 460 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SHELBY...TIPTON AND LAUDERDALE COUNTIES IN WEST TENNESSEE. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE UNTIL 6 AM INCLUDING FAYETTE... HAYWOOD...CROCKETT...MADISON...HARDEMAN...MCNAIRY...CHESTER... HENDERSON...DECATUR AND HARDIN.
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 3:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
TNZ048>054-088>092-170850- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 333 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 1997 ...THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER ENDING ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER... THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED OVER PARTS OF WEST TENNESSEE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 460 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SHELBY...TIPTON AND LAUDERDALE COUNTIES IN WEST TENNESSEE. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMA,INING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE UNTIL 6 AM INCLUDING FAYETTE... HAYWOOD...CROCKETT...MADISON...HARDEMAN...MCNAIRY...CHESTER... HENDERSON...DECATUR AND HARDIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.