Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 1997, 1:09 AM CST for Lee County, Union County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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, 1:09 AM CST (07:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 1:40 AM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, MS, Union 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.
941 WFUS1 KMEM 010709 RRA TORMEM MSC081-145-010740- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 109 AM CST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 140 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN LEE COUNTY ...EASTERN UNION COUNTY AT 107 AM CST...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 11 MILES SOUTH OF NEW ALBANY OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW HARMONY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR NEW HARMONY BY 110 AM CST... BLAIR BY 125 AM CST AND BALDWYN BY 130 AM CST. .IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, 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 |
| Mar 1, 5:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 32 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.