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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN

January 19, 1988Benton County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 1988, 12:33 AM CST for Benton County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 19, 1988, 12:33 AM CST (06:33 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 1988, 1:30 AM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Benton County, MS

The radar

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

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, Jan 18, 11:01 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 12:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTippah41 min
Jan 19, 2:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba, Monroe50 min
Jan 19, 12:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola, Tate30 min
Jan 19, 12:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGClay, Oktibbeha56 min
Jan 19, 12:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw, Monroe59 min
Jan 19, 12:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton46 min
Jan 19, 1:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba60 min
Jan 19, 10:27 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGShelby33 min
Jan 19, 10:52 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette38 min
Jan 19, 11:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHaywood37 min
Jan 19, 11:30 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGHaywood30 min
Jan 19, 12:13 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGFayette32 min
Jan 19, 1:11 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCarroll, Henry49 min
Jan 18, 11:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCrittenden, St. Francis47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.