Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 3:52 PM CST for Itawamba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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
- Jan 24, 1997, 3:52 PM CST (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 4:40 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Itawamba County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 4:08 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Evergreen, MS |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 242153 RRA SVRMEM MSC057-242240- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 352 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 440 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN ITAWAMBA COUNTY AT 350 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN LEE COUNTY JUST NORTH OF NETTLETON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BRING LARGE HAIL TO SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF ITAWAMBA COUNTY INCLUDING EVERGREEN. THE STORM SHOULD PASS JUST SOUTH OF FULTON. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST NORTH OF NETTLETON AT 348 PM.d .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. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 4:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 37 min |
| Jan 24, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 47 min |
| Jan 24, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 47 min |
| Jan 24, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 31 min |
| Jan 24, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Clay | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 35 min |
| Jan 24, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 5:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 32 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.