Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 7:38 AM CDT for Tallahatchie County, Yalobusha County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min. 4 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 7:38 AM CDT (12:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 8:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Tallahatchie County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 8:00 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Scobey, MS | |
| Oct 25, 8:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tillatoba, MS | A few trees were knocked down across Highway 51. |
| Oct 25, 8:00 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Charleston, MS | |
| Oct 25, 8:15 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Coffeeville, MS | Numerous cars and trucks were damaged. Several homes were damaged with hail knocking holes into aluminium siding and roof tops. An insurance agent estimated damage to be around $500,000. |
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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 4:36 AM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-030-031-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>054-088>092-251540- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 436 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TENNESSEE...INCLUDING WEST TENNESSEE...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...EAST ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND MUCH OF WESTERN MISSISSIPPI. IN THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS...THE MODERATE RISK INCLUDES PHILLIPS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS AS WELL AS COAHOMA...QUITMAN...PANOLA...LAFAYETTE ...YALOBUSHA...TALLAHATCHIE AND CALHOUN COUNTIES IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR THE REMAINDER OF EAST ARKANSAS AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI AS WELL AS ALL OF WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE LOCATED OVER NORTHWEST TEXAS THIS MORNING WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TODAY AND TONIGHT AND WILL BE IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AROUND MIDNIGHT. AHEAD OF THIS LOW...SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BRING WARM AND HUMID AIR INTO THE MID-SOUTH. AS THE LOW APPROACHES THE REGION...THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO THE AREA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE CONTAINING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE IS ALSO A THREAT OF TORNADOES...ESPECIALLY IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DURING THE EVENING HOURS TONIGHT AND THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON SUNDAY. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVIATION PARTICULARLY IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO..TV AND CABLE TELEVISION OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 4:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-030-031-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>054-088>092-251540- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 436 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TENNESSEE...INCLUDING WEST TENNESSEE...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...EAST ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AND MUCH OF WESTERN MISSISSIPPI. IN THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS...THE MODERATE RISK INCLUDES PHILLIPS COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS AS WELL AS COAHOMA...QUITMAN...PANOLA...LAFAYETTE ...YALOBUSHA...TALLAHATCHIE AND CALHOUN COUNTIES IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR THE REMAINDER OF EAST ARKANSAS AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI AS WELL AS ALL OF WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE LOCATED OVER NORTHWEST TEXAS THIS MORNING WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TODAY AND TONIGHT AND WILL BE IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS AROUND MIDNIGHT. AHEAD OF THIS LOW...SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BRING WARM AND HUMID AIR INTO THE MID-SOUTH. AS THE LOW APPROACHES THE REGION...THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO THE AREA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE CONTAINING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE IS ALSO A THREAT OF TORNADOES...ESPECIALLY IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DURING THE EVENING HOURS TONIGHT AND THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON SUNDAY. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBNLE ACTIVIATION PARTICULARLY IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO..TV AND CABLE TELEVISION OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 8:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 32 min |
| Oct 25, 8:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun | 33 min |
| Oct 25, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 9:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 17 min |
| Oct 25, 9:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 34 min |
| Oct 25, 10:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 47 min |
| Oct 25, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 40 min |
| Oct 25, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 33 min |
| Oct 25, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Tishomingo | 33 min |
| Oct 25, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 32 min |
| Oct 25, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 33 min |
| Oct 25, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 19 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.