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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Memphis, TN

May 22, 1988Itawamba County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1988, 8:00 PM CDT for Itawamba County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1988, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1988, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Itawamba 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

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 00:00Z on 1988-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 969 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 00:00Z on 1988-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 235 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
969 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
316 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
6.8

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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, May 22, 3:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
310 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 1988

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 159 IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI...

AT 300 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS
WITH EMBEDDED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. THE
STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WATER VALLEY IN YALOBUSHA
COUNTY AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRENADA IN GRENADA COUNTY OF NORTHERN
MISSISSIPPI.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI NEED TO BE WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE
APPROPRIATE ACTION WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, May 22, 4:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
405 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 1988

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 159 IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI...

AT 400 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED
SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI.
THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OXFORD IN  LAFAYETTE
COUNTY  AND 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW ALBANEY IN UNION COUNTY OF
NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST M6ISSISSIPPI NEED TO BE WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE
APPROPRIATE ACTION WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, May 22, 6:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall26 min
May 22, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.