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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Memphis, TN

November 4, 1988Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 1988, 3:25 PM CST for Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 20 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 4, 1988, 3:25 PM CST (21:25 UTC)
Expired
Nov 4, 1988, 3:45 PM CST
In force
20 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe 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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 12:00Z on 1988-11-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1988-11-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 4, 2:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw, Pontotoc39 min
Nov 4, 2:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Prentiss30 min
Nov 4, 3:10 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGPrentiss, Tishomingo35 min
Nov 4, 3:47 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGItawamba, Monroe28 min
Nov 4, 4:12 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGMonroe33 min
Nov 4, 4:35 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGPrentiss30 min
Nov 4, 4:45 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGMonroe30 min
Nov 4, 4:50 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGTishomingo60 min
Nov 4, 5:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe20 min
Nov 4, 12:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLauderdale, Tipton37 min
Nov 4, 12:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardeman33 min
Nov 4, 1:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMcNairy29 min
Nov 4, 3:47 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHenderson58 min
Nov 4, 1:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGreene25 min
Nov 4, 2:54 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCraighead, Greene51 min
Nov 4, 3:15 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCraighead45 min

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.