Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 12:56 PM CDT for Phillips County, Arkansas. It was in force for 19 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 12:56 PM CDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 1:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | West Helena, AR | A police car windshield was destroyed by several tree limbs. |
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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 251759 RRA SVRMEM ARC107-251815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1256 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN ARKANSAS ...NORTHERN PHILLIPS COUNTY AT 1254 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARVELL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN WEST HELENA AND LEXA BY 105 PM. .WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE2 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, Oct 25, 11:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
1119 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 AM GLENDORA MS 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 TALLAHATCHIE QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY TIPPO POST OFFICE
0800 AM SCOBEY MS 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 YALOBUSHA QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SCOBEY POST OFFICE
0800 AM TILLATOBA MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 YALOBUSHA TREES DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY
51
0815 AM COFFEEVILLE MS 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 YALOBUSHA QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY COFFEEVILLE POST OFFICE
0933 AM HOULKA MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 CHICKASAW LARGE TREE DOWN REPORTED
BY CHICKASAW COUNTY EMA
1000 AM TUPELO MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 LEE ROOF CAVED IN AT
GLOUCESTER CREEK MALL
REPORTED BY LEE COUNTY CD
1000 AM SHANNON MS .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 LEE DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
LEE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
1005 AM TUPELO MS TORNADO
10/25/97 LEE POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTED
IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF
TUPELO BY LEE COUNTY CD
1010 AM MS .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 LEE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DIME
SIZE HAIL FROM THROUGHOUT
LEE COUNTY
1011 AM TUPELO MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 LEE NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTY REPORTED BY LEE
COUNTY CD
1015 AM PLANTERSVILLE MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 LEE TWISTED TREES DOWN ON
TRAILERS REPORTED BY LEE
COUNTY CD
1020 AM NEW SALEM MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 ITAWAMBA NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
REPORTED BY ITAWAMBA
COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
1025 AM FAIRVIEW MS .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 ITAWAMBA DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTERLocal storm report, Oct 25, 11:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
1119 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 AM GLENDORA MS 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 TALLAHATCHIE QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY TIPPO POST OFFICE
0800 AM SCOBEY MS 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 YALOBUSHA QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SCOBEY POST OFFICE
0800 AM TILLATOBA MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 YALOBUSHA TREES DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY
51
0815 AM COFFEEVILLE MS 1 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 YALOBUSHA QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY COFFEEVILLE POST OFFICE
0933 AM HOULKA MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 CHICKASAW LARGE TREE DOWN REPORTED
BY CHICKASAW COUNTY EMA
1000 AM TUPELO MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 LEE ROOF CAVED IN AT
GLOUCESTER CREEK MALL
REPORTED BY LEE COUNTY CD
1000 AM SHANNON MS .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 LEE DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
LEE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
1005 AM TUPELO MS TORNADO
10/25/97 LEE POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTED
IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF
TUPELO BY LEE COUNTY CD
1010 AM MS .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 LEE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DIME
SIZE HAIL FROM THROUGHOUT
LEE COUNTY
1011 AM TUPELO MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 LEE NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTY REPORTED BY LEE
COUNTY CD
1015 AM PLANTERSVILLE MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 LEE TWISTED TREES DOWN ON
TRAILERS REPORTED BY LEE
COUNTY CD
1020 AM NEW SALEM MS WIND DAMAGE
10/25/97 ITAWAMBA NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
REPORTED BY ITAWAMBA
COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
1025 AM FAIRVIEW MS .75 INCH HAIL
10/25/97 ITAWAMBA DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTERNearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.