Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Watches in 1997
Tornado Watch 25
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 24, 1997, 4:00 AM CST for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama; 16 parishes in Louisiana; 12 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 1997, 4:00 AM CST (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL, Ascension Parish, LA, Assumption Parish, LA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint James Parish, LA, Saint John the Baptist Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, St. Mary Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Marion County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Walthall County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 4:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Washington | 68 min |
| Jan 24, 4:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 4:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 62 min |
| Jan 24, 4:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 69 min |
| Jan 24, 4:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 5:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 56 min |
| Jan 24, 5:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 69 min |
| Jan 24, 5:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 6:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 67 min |
| Jan 24, 6:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 69 min |
| Jan 24, 6:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 56 min |
| Jan 24, 6:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 56 min |
| Jan 24, 6:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche, Terrebonne | 61 min |
| Jan 24, 8:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 55 min |
| Jan 24, 8:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard | 58 min |
| Jan 24, 8:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Lafourche | 58 min |
| Jan 24, 8:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 68 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 24, 6:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 24, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 14 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Louisiana, 1997Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 1997Tornado Watches in Alabama, 1997Every tornado 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.