Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 3:08 PM CDT for Perry County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 67 min. 2 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, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Wiggins, MS | Several trees and power lines were blown down along State Road 29 about two miles northeast of Wiggins. A mobile home was also damaged when a tree fell on it. No injuries were reported. |
| Oct 25, 3:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Janice, MS | Trees and power lines were blown down along State Road 29 in the southwest part of the county about five miles southwest of Janice. This was the same storm that downed trees along Highway 29 just northeast of Wiggins. |
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 252010 RRA TORMOB MSC111-131-252115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 308 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...PERRY COUNTY...STONE COUNTY AT 306 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADRA IN MOBILE INDICATED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR POPLARVILLE,MS. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHWEST STONE AND SOUTHWEST PERRY COUNTIES DURING THROUGH 4 PM. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CA<UGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 67 min |
| Oct 25, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 63 min |
| Oct 25, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 64 min |
| Oct 25, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.