Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 45, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 5:52 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Chickasaw County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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
- Oct 25, 1997, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 6:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 6:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Vardaman, MS | A few trees were knocked down. |
| Oct 25, 6:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Woodland, MS | Several homes were damaged. |
| Oct 25, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Trebloc, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
122 WFUS1 KMEM 252254 RRA TORMEM MSC013-017-252340- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 552 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 640 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHEASTERN CALHOUN COUNTY ...SOUTHERN CHICKASAW COUNTY AT 550 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN NORTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY..JUST NORTH OF BELLEFONTAINE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST CALHOUN COUNTY AND SOUTHERN CHICKASAW COUNTIES BETWEEN SLATE SPRING AND WOODLAND BETWEEN 555 AND 630 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 7:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 32 min |
| Oct 25, 8:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 32 min |
| Oct 25, 8:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun | 33 min |
| Oct 25, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 9:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 17 min |
| Oct 25, 9:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 34 min |
| Oct 25, 10:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 47 min |
| Oct 25, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 40 min |
| Oct 25, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 33 min |
| Oct 25, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Tishomingo | 33 min |
| Oct 25, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 35 min |
| Oct 25, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 32 min |
| Oct 25, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 33 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.