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Tornado Watch 70

February 26, 19975 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 26, 1997, 8:00 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 26, 1997, 8:00 PM CST (02:00 UTC)
Expired: Feb 27, 1997, 2:00 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 82 counties

Chicot County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Phillips County, AR, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, Copiah County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 26, 8:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Tensas	45 min
Feb 26, 8:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison, West Carroll	30 min
Feb 26, 9:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	50 min
Feb 26, 9:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	26 min
Feb 26, 9:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	39 min
Feb 26, 10:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman, Madison	47 min
Feb 26, 10:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	49 min
Feb 26, 10:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester	34 min
Feb 26, 10:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah	33 min
Feb 26, 10:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Union	34 min
Feb 26, 11:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah, Union	36 min
Feb 26, 11:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc, Union	34 min
Feb 26, 11:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	35 min
Feb 26, 11:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	47 min
Feb 26, 11:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	34 min
Feb 26, 11:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	46 min
Feb 26, 11:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin, Henderson	33 min
Feb 26, 11:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Decatur	51 min
Feb 26, 11:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	32 min
Feb 27, 12:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Humphreys	50 min
Feb 27, 12:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Monroe	49 min
Feb 27, 12:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston	50 min

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Feb 27, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 15 more	5 hr
Feb 27, 12:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Itawamba, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, Tishomingo	6 hr

Nearby

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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.