Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 9
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 8, 1997, 10:15 AM CST for 31 counties in Alabama; Madison Parish, Louisiana; 32 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 1997, 10:15 AM CST (16:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1997, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Madison Parish, LA, Amite County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Wayne County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 10:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 41 min |
| Jan 8, 10:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton | 47 min |
| Jan 8, 10:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin | 40 min |
| Jan 8, 11:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 54 min |
| Jan 8, 12:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 53 min |
| Jan 8, 12:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 44 min |
| Jan 8, 12:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 53 min |
| Jan 8, 2:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 59 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 410 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Louisiana, 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.