Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 4:43 PM CST for Yalobusha County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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, 4:43 PM CST (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yalobusha County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 5:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Coffeeville, 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 nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.
682 WUUS1 KMEM 242244 SVRMEM MSC161-242330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 443 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI ...YALOBUSHA COUNTY AT 440 PM ... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR LOCATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT SIX MILES NORTHEAST OF OAKLAND. MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH ... THIS STORM WILL BRING LARGE HAIL TO THE VELMA AND PINE VALLEY AREAS BETWEEN 445 PM AND 500 PM THIS EVENING. .SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 3:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 48 min |
| 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, 4:54 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
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.