Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 5:28 AM CST for Tippah 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, 5:28 AM CST (11:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tippah County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:30 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 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 011128 RRA SVRMEM MSC139-011200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 528 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...TIPPAH COUNTY AT 524 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FALKNER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR FALKNER BY 529 AM CST AND WALNUT BY 535 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, Mar 1, 4:21 AM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
TNZ001-002-019-048-049-011055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 421 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 74 HAS BEEN CLEARED FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHWEST TENNESSEE... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED ACROSS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF TENNESSEE. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 74 - LAKE...OBION...DYER...LAUDERDALE...TIPTON. THE REMAINDER OF WEST AND MUCH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE REMAIN UNDER A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 6 AM THIS MORNING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
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, 2:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 32 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.