Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 3:23 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 67 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 25, 1997, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 1997, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 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 20:26 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, 3:49 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Waynesboro, MS | Quarter size hail was reported about eight miles northeast of Waynesboro on Matherville Diamond Road. |
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, 8.4 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
- 2580 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 252025 RRA TORMOB MSC153-252130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 323 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...WAYNE COUNTY AT 320 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED A DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT WILL LIKELY PRODUCE A TORNADO. THE STORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWEST WAYNE COUNTY...NEAR CLARA...AND WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH TOWARDS DENHAM,MS THROUGH 430 PM CDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 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
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes 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.