Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 1997, 11:58 AM CST for Lee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 32 min. 3 reports 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, 11:58 AM CST (17:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 12:30 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 12:04 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Plantersville, MS | |
| Mar 5, 12:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooreville, MS | |
| Mar 5, 12:18 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Eggville, 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 051759 RRA TORMEM MSC081-051830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1158 AM CST WED MAR 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...LEE COUNTY AT 11 57 AM..DOPLLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR BELDEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR SATILLO BY 1215 PM. .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 HLOWEST 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 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, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 12:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 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.