Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 1988, 5:12 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1988, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1988, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lafayette 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 28 min |
| Aug 26, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 34 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 1988Every tornado warning in 1988Tornadoes 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.