Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1997, 12:23 PM CST for Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 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
- Mar 5, 1997, 12:23 PM CST (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 12:55 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tishomingo County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 12:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Belmont, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 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 051824 RRA SVRMEM MSC141-051855- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1223 PM CST WED MAR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1255 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...TISHOMINGO COUNTY AT 1220 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF TISHOMINGO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR TISHOMINGO AND BELMONT BY 1230 PM. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tunica | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tate | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tippah | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 31 min |
| Mar 5, 11:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 34 min |
| Mar 5, 11:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 12:13 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.