Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1997, 9:35 PM CDT for Quitman County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 9, 1997, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1997, 10:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Quitman County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -205 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 100237 RRA SVRMEM MSC119-100305- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 935 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1005 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI ...QUITMAN COUNTY AT 932 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARKS. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND. .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.
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, Jul 9, 8:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
817 PM CDT WED JUL 09 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0440 PM 3 NW BOONEVILLE MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 PRENTISS DIME SIZE HAIL BETWEEN
JUMPERTOWN AND BOONEVILLE.
REPORT FROM SHERIFF.
0515 PM BALDWYN MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 LEE DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND NE COUNTY 911
RELAYED THROUGH NWSFO JAC
0537 PM 3 W SALTILLO MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 LEE AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL 3
MILES WEST OF SALTILLO.
0540 PM SALTILLO MS WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97 LEE AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS
REPORTED A TREE BLOWN DOWN
IN SALTILLO.
0553 PM TUPELO MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 LEE DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED ON THE NORTHWEST
SIDE OF THE CITY OF
TUPELO. REPORT FROM LEE
COUNTY 911.
0610 PM BELDEN MS WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97 LEE NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN
THE TUPELO-BELDEN AREA.
REPORTS FROM AMATEUR RADIO
AND EMA SPOTTERS.Local storm report, Jul 9, 8:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
817 PM CDT WED JUL 09 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0440 PM 3 NW BOONEVILLE MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 PRENTISS DIME SIZE HAIL BETWEEN
JUMPERTOWN AND BOONEVILLE.
REPORT FROM SHERIFF.
0515 PM BALDWYN MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 PRENTISS DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND NEAR BALDWYN. REPORT
FROM LEE COUNTY 911.
0537 PM 3 W SALTILLO MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 LEE AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL 3
MILES WEST OF SALTILLO.
0540 PM SALTILLO MS WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97 LEE AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS
REPORTED A TREE BLOWN DOWN
IN SALTILLO.
0553 PM TUPELO MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 LEE DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED ON THE NORTHWEST
SIDE OF THE CITY OF
TUPELO. REPORT FROM LEE
COUNTY 911.
0610 PM BELDEN MS WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97 LEE NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN
THE TUPELO-BELDEN AREA.
REPORTS FROM AMATEUR RADIO
AND EMA SPOTTERS.
RDSLocal storm report, Jul 9, 8:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
817 PM CDT WED JUL 09 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0440 PM 3 NW BOONEVILLE MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 PRENTISS DIME SIZE HAIL BETWEEN
JUMPERTOWN AND BOONEVILLE.
REPORT FROM SHERIFF.
0515 PM BALDWYN MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 LEE DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND NE COUNTY 911
RELAYED THROUGH NWSFO JAC
0537 PM 3 W SALTILLO MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 LEE AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL 3
MILES WEST OF SALTILLO.
0540 PM SALTILLO MS WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97 LEE AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS
REPORTED A TREE BLOWN DOWN
IN SALTILLO.
0553 PM TUPELO MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 LEE DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED ON THE NORTHWEST
SIDE OF THE CITY OF
TUPELO. REPORT FROM LEE
COUNTY 911.
0610 PM BELDEN MS WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97 LEE NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN
THE TUPELO-BELDEN AREA.
j REPORTS FROM AMATEUR RADIO
AND EMA SPOTTERS.Local storm report, Jul 9, 8:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
817 PM CDT WED JUL 09 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0440 PM 3 NW BOONEVILLE MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 PRENTISS DIME SIZE HAIL BETWEEN
JUMPERTOWN AND BOONEVILLE.
REPORT FROM SHERIFF.
0515 PM BALDWYN MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 PRENTISS DIME SIZE HAIL COVERED THE
GROUND NEAR BALDWYN. REPORT
FROM LEE COUNTY 911.
0537 PM 3 W SALTILLO MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 LEE AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL 3
MILES WEST OF SALTILLO.
0540 PM SALTILLO MS WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97 LEE AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS
REPORTED A TREE BLOWN DOWN
IN SALTILLO.
0553 PM TUPELO MS .75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97 LEE DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED ON THE NORTHWEST
SIDE OF THE CITY OF
TUPELO. REPORT FROM LEE
COUNTY 911.
0610 PM BELDEN MS WIND DAMAGE
07/09/97 LEE NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN
THE TUPELO-BELDEN AREA.
REPORTS FROM AMATEUR RADIO
AND EMA SPOTTERS.
RDSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 2 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.