Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1997, 5:49 PM CDT for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 9, 1997, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1997, 6:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:53 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Tupelo, MS | |
| Jul 9, 6:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Belden, MS | Numerous trees nad 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
734 WUUS1 KMEM 092251 RRA SVRMEM MSC081-092325- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 549 PM CDT WED JUL 9 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 NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...LEE COUNTY AT 549 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF SALTILLO. THE STORM CONTINUED TO DRIFT SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM WILL PASS NORTH OF TUPELO. .WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 4:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall, Tippah | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.