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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Memphis, TN

July 31, 1986DeSoto County, Tate County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1986, 8:48 PM CDT for DeSoto County, Tate County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 31, 1986, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 1986, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties DeSoto County, MS, Tate County, MS

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 8 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: 136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3601 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 3:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
320PM CDT THU JUL 31 1986

 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 439 IN EFFECT UNTIL 800PM CDT FOR
A PART OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI...

AT 320PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED NO
PRECIPITATION IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE. HOWEVER AN
AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IS OCCURRING OVER NORTH ALABAMA. THIS
ACTIVITY IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

EVEN THOUGH NO ACTIVITY IS NOTED OVER NORTH MISSISSIPPI..WE EXPECT THE
ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY DURING THE HEAT OF THE DAY AND TO CONTINUE
INTO THE EVENING HOURS.

PERSONS IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
520PM CDT THU JUL 31 1986

 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 439 IN EFFECT UNTIL 800PM CDT FOR
A PART OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI...

AT 520PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED NO
PRECIPITATION IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI. HOWEVER AN AREA OF INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS NORTHEAST
ARKANSAS.

EVEN THOUGH NO ACTIVITY IS NOTED OVER NORTH &MISSISSIPPI..WE EXPECT THE
ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

PERSONS IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Local storm report, Jul 31, 5:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  MEMPHIS TN
550 PM CDT THU JUL 31 1986

 REPORTS FOR PERIOD 4PM CDT TO 530PM CDT THU JUL 31 1986

420 PM POINSETT COUNTY ARKANSAS. SHERIFFS OFFICE 50-55 MPH WINDS.

420 PM CRAIGHEAD COUNTY ARKANSAS. OTWELL (10 SW JBR) VERY HEAVY RAIN
       WIND BLOWING LIMBS FROM TREES ESTD 50-55 MPH. SMALL HAIL.

520 PM POINSETT COUNTY ARKANSAS. HARRISBURG TREES DOWN WINDS ESTD 60 MPH.

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
620PM CDT THU JUL 31 1986

 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 439 IN EFFECT UNTIL 800PM CDT
THIS EVENING FOR A PART OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI...

AT 620PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED NO
PRECIPITATION IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI. HOWEVER AN AREA OF INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS NORTHEAST
ARKANSAS.

EVEN THOUGH NO ACTIVITY IS NOTEND OVER NORTH MISSISSIPPI..WE EXPECT THE
ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP DURING THE EVENING HOURS.

PERSONS IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
720PM CDT THU JUL 31 1986

 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 439 REPLACED WITH SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 443...

 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 443 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200AM CDT
TONIGHT FOR NORTH MISSISSIPPI WHICH INCLUDES LAFAYETTE COUNTY...

AT 720PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED NO
PRECIPITATION IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI. HOWEVER AN AREA OF INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS NORTHEAST
ARKANSAS AND THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF TENNESSEE. THE STRONGEST
THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF MEMPHIS..TENNESSEE.

EVEN THOUGH NO ACTIVITY IS NOTED OVER NORTH MISSISSI}PPI..WE EXPECT THE
ACTIVITY TO MOVE INTO THE AREA LATER TONIGHT.

PERSONS IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Local storm report, Jul 31, 8:23 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	53 min
Jul 31, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	31 min
Jul 31, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto	63 min
Jul 31, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto	68 min
Jul 31, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	58 min
Jul 31, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1986 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.