Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 360
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 1997, 2:45 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1997, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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.
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 48 min |
| May 30, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe | 47 min |
| May 30, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross | 35 min |
| May 30, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 34 min |
| May 30, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale, Tipton | 47 min |
| May 30, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tate | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll and 44 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 1997Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.