Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 9, 1990, 5:01 PM CST for Marshall County, Mississippi; Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 1990, 5:01 PM CST (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 9, 1990, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, MS, Fayette County, TN
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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 3593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMEM 092302
SVRMEM
MSC093-TNC047-092345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
501 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI
...NORTHERN MARSHALL
IN WEST TENNESSEE
...SOUTHERN FAYETTE
AT 500 PM RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE BORDER
AREA OF NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHERN FAYETTE IN
WEST TENNESSEE.
STRONG WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE ACCOMPANIED THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Feb 9, 3:30 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
MSZ004-005-007-092230 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 330 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 21 IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI... AT 320 PM CST TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS NEAR EUPORA IN SOUTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY...NEAR CHARLESTON IN EAST CENTRAL TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY AND CALHOUN CITY IN CENTRAL CALHOUN COUNTY. OTHERWISE RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINS OVER NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MILES AN HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED. PERSONS IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI NEED TO BE WEATHER ALERT AND TAKE PROPER ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Feb 9, 4:29 PM CST, 32 minutes before
MSZ004-005-007-092330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 430 PM CST FRI FEB 9 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 21 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING... AT 425 PM CST...TUPELO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATIN A RATHER LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM CENTRAL QUITMQN COUNTY EXTENDING TO THE NORTHEAST TO NORTHERN BENTON COUNTY AND MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORM CTIVITY EXTENDED TO THE SOUTHEAST TO AS FAR AS MONROE ITAWAMBA AND TISHOMINGO COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHWESTERN CHICKASAW COUNTY...NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY AND CNTRAL BENTON COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. ANYONE LIVING IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER ALERT AN TAKE PROPER PRECAUTIONS TO INSURE SAFETY. REMAIN LISTENING TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TELEVISION...OR REGULAR RADIO STATIONS FOR MORE INFORMATION. MORE STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 3:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lauderdale | 67 min |
| Feb 9, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Dyer | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1990Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.