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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 280

May 14, 1997Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas; 24 parishes in Louisiana; 28 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 14, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT for Ashley County, Chicot County, Arkansas; 24 parishes in Louisiana; 28 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 54 counties

Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Attala County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clay County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

Warnings issued inside it

10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Webster	41 min
May 14, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll	31 min
May 14, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	48 min
May 14, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	45 min
May 14, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	52 min
May 14, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	54 min
May 14, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba	46 min
May 14, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	39 min
May 14, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	34 min
May 14, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Bienville, Webster	42 min

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 1997 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Louisiana, 1997 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.