Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 1997, 5:23 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 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
- Oct 24, 1997, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 5:47 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Waynesboro, MS | Several trees and power lines were blown down just east of Waynesboro. |
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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 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 KMOB 242223 RRA SVRMOB MSC153-242315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 523 PM CDT FRI OCT 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...WAYNE COUNTY MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE DE SOTO NATIONAL FOREST. THIS STORM HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF PRODUCING LARGE...DAMAGING HAIL AS IT TRACKS NORTHEAST FROM CLARA TO BATTLES BETWEEN 530 AND 6 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RFAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 6:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 65 min |
| Oct 24, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 40 min |
| Oct 24, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.