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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Memphis, TN

November 4, 1988Itawamba County, Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 1988, 3:47 PM CST for Itawamba County, Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 4, 1988, 3:47 PM CST (21:47 UTC)
Expired
Nov 4, 1988, 4:15 PM CST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Itawamba County, MS, 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1988-11-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1988-11-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUP 042148
TORTUP
MSC095-057-042215-

BULLETIN EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
347 PM CST FRI NOV 04 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE
UNTIL 345 PM  CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY   IN NORTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI...MONROE...ITAWAMBA

AT 345 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5  MILES NORTH OF
AMORY..MS. MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.


IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO..GO TO A STORM CELLAR OR A
CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE
HOMES AND GO TO A CONCRETE OR BRICK BUILDING.

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, 3:25 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGMonroe20 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

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.