Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 2:33 AM CST for Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 2:33 AM CST (08:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 3:05 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tishomingo County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 344 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 010833 RRA SVRMEM MSC141-010905- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 233 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 305 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN TISHOMINGO COUNTY AT 232 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR 6 MILES WEST OF IUKA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR PINE FLAT BY 235 AM CST. .A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, Feb 28, 9:39 PM CST, 4 hours 54 minutes before
TNZ001>007-019>026-048>058-088>093-010445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 939 PM CST FRI FEB 28 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 73 CANCELLED FOR TENNESSEE... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 73 FOR WEST TENNESSEE AND WESTERN PARTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED NORTHWARD OUT OF TENNESSEE AND INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY OR HAVE DIMINISHED AND DECREASED IN NUMBER OVER TENNESSEE DURING THE LAST HOUR. A WARM FRONT THAT HELPED TRIGGER THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED NORTHWARD ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE AND IS NOW MOVING ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY. THERE IS NO LONGER ANY THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN TENNESSEE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 12:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Pontotoc | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 12:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Pontotoc | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 1:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, Union | 31 min |
| Mar 1, 2:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 2:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 2:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 2:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 19 min |
| Mar 1, 2:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 31 min |
| Mar 1, 3:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Pontotoc, Union | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 5:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 32 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.