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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Memphis, TN

May 9, 1989Coahoma County, Mississippi; Phillips County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1989, 2:09 AM CDT for Coahoma County, Mississippi; Phillips County, Arkansas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 1989, 2:09 AM CDT (07:09 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1989, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Phillips County, AR, Coahoma 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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 8, 9:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS
945  PM CDT MON MAY  8 1989

   ...RAIN AND THUNDERSHOWERS CONTINUE IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI...

AT 930 CDT...TUPELO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING A
RATHER LARGE AREA OF WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WITH EMBEDDED RAINSHOWERS
AND THUNDERSHOWERS OVER MANY SECTIONS OF NORTH
MISSISSIPPI...EXLCLUDING THE EXTREME NORTHEASTERN PORTION OF
MISSISSIPPI.

THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSHOWER ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED OVER WESTERN
SECTIONS OF LOWNDES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

THESE THUNDERSHOWERS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH
SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE WHOLE SYSTEM OF LIGHT RAIN
WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSHOWERS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF GUSTY WINDS...LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

MORE STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.

Special weather statement, May 8, 9:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
950 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1989

  ...HEAVY RAINS TRACKING THROUGH PARTS OF EASTERN ARKANSAS...

AT MID EVENING HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH
LEE COUNTY ARKANSAS. THESE STORMS HAVE VERY HEAVY RAINS FALLING AT THE
RATE OF SEVERAL INCHES PER HOUR. THE HEAVY RAINS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST
AROUND 35 MPH. HOWEVER NEW RAIN STORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE SAME
AREAS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. PEOPLE
IN LEE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING FROM THESE HEAVY
SHOWERS.

REMEMBER IF RISING WATER THREATENS YOU MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.  DO NOT
TRY TO DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO FLOODED AREAS.

RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MUCH OF THE NIGHT IN
EASTERN ARKANSAS AND PEOPLE SHOULD LISTEN FOR FUURTHER WEATHER
STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, May 8, 10:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 12:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 1:25 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 10:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Tunica	54 min
May 8, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tunica	42 min
May 9, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma	44 min
May 8, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1989 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arkansas, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.